HL Deb 15 January 2001 vol 620 c109WA
Lord Alton of Liverpool

asked Her Majesty's Government:

When they intend to introduce a Bill which they have promised to prohibit reproduction cloning. [HL257]

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath:

The Government regard human reproductive cloning as ethically unacceptable.

In their response (Cmnd 4833) to the report of the Chief Medical Officer's Expert Advisory Group, Stem Cell Research: Medical Progress with Responsibility, the Government announced that they would bring forward legislation to set out unequivocally the ban on human reproductive cloning when parliamentary time allows.