February

2005-02-01: The HFEA received 19 FOI requests during January 2005. Of these, 15 had been answered by the end of the month; 8 of them on day of receipt.

2005-02-07: Papers for the Ethics and Law Committee - and its precursor, the Ethics Committee - covering the period January 2003 to October 2004. Papers for the February 2003 and April 2003 Ethics Committee meetings are available to download here; post-May 2003 Ethics and Law Committee papers will be available on the HFEA web site by the end of the month.

2005-02-07: Recent inspection reports for all London clinics.

2005-02-09: Details relating to consultants employed by the HFEA between 2003 and 2005. Figures refer to thousands sterling (£000) in the PDF spreadsheet.

2005-02-11: Documentation relating to the award of a research licence to Newcastle Fertility Centre at LIFE to create human embryonic stem cells using cell nuclear transfer (CNR). The HFEA press release and the lay summary of the licence are available on this web site.

2005-02-11: Documentation relating to the award of a research licence to the Roslin Institute (RO158) to derive human embryonic stem cell lines by cell nuclear transfer for technology development and the study of Motor Neuron Disease (see also the entry for 1 March 2005 in the FOI Disclosure Log). The HFEA press release, the lay summary of the licence and the minutes of the Licence Committee meeting in which the award of the licence was deliberated all are available on this web site.

2005-02-21: Documentation from an Authority meeting held on 21 July 2004 in which the HFEA deliberated the use of preimplantation tissue typing. Please note that these documents are too large to make available for download online.