HC Deb 26 January 1988 vol 126 cc223-6W
Mr. Thurnham

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the names of(a) organisations and (b) individuals who responded to his Department's consultation document, Cm. 46, "Legislation on Human Infertility Services and Embryo Research", published in December 1986.

Mr. Newton

[holding answer 20 January 1988]: Detailed responses were sent to the Department by the 158 organisations listed as follows and by 40 individuals. The other health departments also received comments. The list indicates those organisations whose submissions have been placed in the Library. Clearance is being sought to make similar arrangements for the remaining organisations.

LIST OF ORGANISATIONS RESPONDING TO THE CONSULTATION PAPER: "LEGISLATION ON HUMAN FERTILITY SERVICES AND EMBRYO RESEARCH" (CM 46) (The responses of organisations marked with an asterisk have been placed in the Library of the House)

Medical

  • Association of Clinical Cytogeneticists
  • Birmingham University, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology*
  • Bourn Hall Clinic, Cambridge*
  • British Fertility Society
  • British Medical Association*
  • British Medical Association, General Medical Services Committee*
  • British Pregnancy Advisory Service*
  • British Psychological Society
  • British Society for Developmental Biology
  • Brook Advisory Centres*
  • Committee of Directors of Polytechnics*
  • Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals*
  • Doctors who respect Human Life*
  • Family Planning Association*
  • General Medical Council"
  • Guild of Catholic Doctors*
  • Hallam Medical Centre*
  • Hammersmith Hospital Infertility Clinic*
  • Humana Hospital Wellington, IVF Unit*
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  • Joint Coordinating Committee Medical Defence Unions*
  • Leeds University, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology*
  • Leicester University, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology*
  • London Independent Hospital*
  • Medical Research Council*
  • Medical Women's Federation*
  • National Association of Family Planning Doctors*
  • National Perinatal Epipemiology Unit
  • Oxford University, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology*
  • Paediatric Research Unit
  • Park Hospital, Nottingham*
  • Royal College of General Practitioners*
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists*
  • Royal College of Physicians*
  • Royal College of Surgeons*
  • Royal Society*
  • Sandwell DGH, Obstetrics & Gynaecology Division
  • Sheffield University, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology*
  • University Grants Committee"
  • Voluntary Licensing Authority*
  • Wessex Regional Medical Advisory Committee (O&G)
  • York University, Dept. of Biology*

Nursing

  • Central Birmingham Health Authority (Nursing Staff)
  • Health Visitors Association*
  • Health Visitors Association (Thames Valley Branch)
  • Mid-Downs DHA (Nursing Staff)
  • Mid-Staffordshire Health Authority (Nursing Staff)
  • Royal College of Midwives*
  • Royal College of Nursing*
  • Southmead Hospital (Senior Midwives)
  • South West Surrey DHA (Nursing Staff)
  • South West Thames Regional Professional Advisory Committee for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting

Social Work

  • Association of Child Psychotherapists
  • British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering*
  • British Association for Social Work (BASW)
  • CHILD*
  • Child Care and Development Group (University of Cambridge)
  • Childcare*
  • Childrens Legal Centre*
  • Childrens Society
  • East Anglia Adoption and Family Care Association
  • Institute of Population Studies, Exeter*
  • Maternity Alliance*
  • MENCAP*
  • National Association for Maternal and Child Welfare*
  • National Association for the Childless*
  • National Association for the Childless (Norfolk Branch)
  • National Childrens Bureau
  • National Organisation for Counselling of Adoptees and Parents (NORC)*
  • Nottinghamshire County Council, Social Services Department
  • One Parent Families*
  • Parent to Parent Information on Adoption Services
  • Suffolk County Council, Social Services Department

Legal

  • Association of Lawyers for the Defence of the Unborn*
  • Council on Tribunals*
  • Family Division of the High Court of Justice*
  • Family Law Bar Association*
  • Solicitors Family Law Association*

Religious

  • Baptist Union*
  • Brownhill United Reform Church
  • CARE Campaigns
  • Catholic Bishops Joint Committee on Bio-Ethical Issues*
  • Catholic Womens League*
  • Christian Action Group, Leicestershire
  • Christian Concern for Plymouth/Peverell Community Church
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  • Christian Medical Fellowship*
  • Church of England, Board for Social Responsibility*
  • Clinical Theology Association
  • Diocese of Chichester, Board for Social Responsibility
  • Diocese of Oxford, Board for Social Responsibility
  • Fellowship of Independant Evangelical Churches
  • Free Church Federal Council*
  • Ivy Cottage Evangelical Church
  • League of Jewish Women*
  • Methodist Church, Division of Social Responsibility*
  • Mothers Union*
  • National Board of Catholic Women
  • Order of Christian Unity*
  • Renewal Christian Centre
  • Saffron Walden Constituency Prayer Group
  • Salvation Army*
  • St. Boniface Church Parish Council, Southampton
  • St. Michaels RC Church Care Committee
  • St. Peters Parochial Church Council, Bucks
  • Stafford and District Council of Churches
  • Sunderland South Constituency Prayer Group
  • Surbiton Christian Response

NHS

  • Burnley Pendle and Rossendale CHC
  • Central Manchester Health Authority
  • Central Nottinghamshire CHC
  • Coventry CHC
  • East Anglian RHA*
  • Hammersmith SHA
  • Lancaster Health Authority
  • Mersey RHA*
  • Newcastle CHC
  • North Tyneside CHC
  • North Warwickshire Health Authority
  • North West Thames RHA*
  • North Western RHA*
  • Northern RHA*
  • Peterborough CHC
  • Preston CHC
  • Rochdale CHC
  • Sandwell DGH (Ethics Committee)
  • Solihull DGH
  • South East Thames RHA*
  • South Manchester Health Authority
  • South Western RHA*
  • Trent RHA*
  • Wessex RHA*
  • West Midlands RHA*
  • West Norfolk and Wisbech CHC

Other bodies

  • All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group*
  • Association of Genealogists and Record Agents
  • Birmingham Reproductive Rights and Abortion Group
  • British Federation of University Women
  • British Federation of University Women (N.E. Association)
  • British Housewive's League
  • British Humanist Association

Type of hospital: Geriatric
Health district 1982–83 (£s) 1983–84 (£s) 1984–85 (£s) 1985–86 (£s) 1986–87 (£s)
North Derbyshire 1,938,369 1,891,141 2,060,668 2,110,109 2,162,757
South Derbyshire 4,227,006 4,491,060 4,594,986 4,791,763 4,973,201
Leicestershire 4,305,544 4,565,233 4,756,529 5,092,452 5,573,483
North Lincolnshire 179,473 50,482 — — —
South Lincolnshire 1,322,352 1,320,771 1,341,036 1,413,469 1,563,875
Bassetlaw — — — — —
Central Nottingham 1,365,941 1,350,439 1,405,112 1,537,890 1,674,045
Nottingham 5,797,026 5,584,392 5,309,095 5,334,949 11,433,782
Barnsley 1,728,603 1,894,737 2,002,620 2,017,793 2,219,033
Doncaster 1,228,744 1,313,241 1,378,398 1,410,566 1,506,579
Rotherham 1,814,795 1,959,563 2,186,568 2,360,767 2,508,066
Sheffield 1,045,420 1,300,031 1,441,894 1,540,155 1,659,115
1 Expenditure reduced due to closure of hospital

  • Campaign for Homosexual Equality*
  • Conservative Family Campaign
  • FINRRAGE
  • Lewisham Green Party
  • LIFE*
  • LIFE (N.E. Surrey Branch)
  • National Federation of Women's Institutes*
  • National Union of Townswomen's Guilds*
  • PROGRESS*
  • Sheffield Family Concern
  • Society of Genealogists
  • Soroptimist International (Hastings and Bexhill)
  • SPUC*
  • SPUC (Bradford Branch)
  • Tuberous Sclerosis Association of Great Britain
  • United Kingdom Federation of Business and Professional Women
  • Womens Health Information Centre
  • Womens Reproductive Rights Information Centre*
  • York Womens Reproductive Rights Campaign