Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 11 July 2016 (HL1098), whether the correspondence between Professor Grifo and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) expert panel was selectively released to anyone not directly connected with the HFEA; whether other information received by the HFEA has been selectively released to such persons but not otherwise made publicly available; and if so, what assessment they have made of the extent to which conflicts of interest might arise from the selective release of such material.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that it has nothing further to add, in respect of the correspondence between Professor Grifo and the expert panel, to that already set out in previous answers.