Committee of Enquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Warnock Enquiry) and formulating of the Human Ferilisation and Embyology Act

Papers relating to the Committee of Enquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology, chaired by Dame Mary Warnock DBE, including press cuttings, copy of the committee's Report, relevant Parliamentary Questions and Population References (PQR) Information Service documents, BPAS evidence and opinion to the committee, BPAS comments and BPAS Trustees comments on the Warnock report, BPAS press release, BPAS response to the DHSS Consultation Document on Human Infertility Services and embryo Research June 1987 (including copies of the consultation paper), PQR documents relating to the Human Fetilisation and Embryology White Paper.

These papers were collated by Diane Munday.

1984-1987

1 file (in 4 parts)

The Committee of Enquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology, chaired by Dame Mary Warnock DBE, covered 1982-1984. Her report on this occasion gave rise to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, which governs human fertility treatment and experimentation using human embryos. Its effect has been to require licensing for procedures such as in vitro fertilisation and to ban research using human embryos more than 14 days old.