Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Kamall on 9 November (HL Deb, col 1588) that the time limit for storage of gametes and embryos will be amended by legislation to extend it beyond 10 years "when parliamentary time allows", when they expect that to be achieved.

The Department is in the process of finalising the details of the policy. The detailed implementation of the policy will be announced in due course.