Statutory Storage Period For Human Embryos

EDM number 330 in 1995-96, proposed by David Alton on 23/01/1996.

That this House notes that the Human Embryology Authority has recommended an extension of the five-year limit on which a human embryo may be stored; deplores the slip-shod and slap-dash way in which the report has been written; calls for the details of the research material used by the HFEA to be placed in the Library; urges Her Majesty's Government to consider most carefully the fate of what the Daily Telegraph has described as 3,000 orphaned embryos; and believes that the creation of surplus human embryos, and the loss of information identifying their parents, entirely discredits the HFEA as an appropriate body to recommend upon their future.

This motion has been signed by a total of 7 MPs.