§ Baroness Coxasked Her Majesty's Government:
Given the side-effects to patients in recent trials conducted at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York (Wall Street Journal, 3 December), whether they will ban the use of tissue from aborted foetuses in research for Parkinson's disease. [HL522]
§ Lord Hunt of Kings HeathWe understand that the report in theWall Street Journal is based on unpublished data presented at a scientific meeting. Until the research is published in full it would be premature to make any comment.