Health: Hormone Pregnancy Tests

Baroness Gardner of Parkes Excerpts

Thursday 21st January 2016 Lords Chamber

[Lord Prior of Brampton]

My Lords, the noble Lord is clearly an expert in this field. If the advice is that pregnant women should not take any kind of drug during pregnancy, that must be the right advice. I agree with him that many of these documents go right back to the early 1950s and many are in German rather than English. The quantity of documentation is enormous. That is one reason why this review has taken so long. However, the people on the expert working group are very distinguished clinicians and are doing the best they can in very difficult circumstances.

[Baroness Gardner of Parkes (Con)]

My Lords, will the Minister confirm the reply he gave that no one will be asked to take any of these experimental things without being aware of doing so, because pregnancy is a time of great anxiety, particularly in view of the accidents that have happened in the past?

[Lord Prior of Brampton]

All I can do is entirely agree with what my noble friend says. That must be right.