Clause 2 - ''Appropriate consent'': children
Human Tissue Bill
9:30 am
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury, Conservative)
Will the Minister accept that there is a great deal of concern on the part of the medical research community about these grey areas—the areas for discretion? As I understand it, her argument almost invites legal action to flesh out some of the gaps that we are leaving in this proposed legislation, and the concerns of organisations such as the BioIndustry Association will be left unanswered. Organisations such as Cancer Research UK, as I said on Second Reading, are worried that people's fears about going into medical research may influence their decision on whether to pursue clinical research. Those fears will come to fruition and people may worry that they will end up in the law courts as test cases to flesh out this grey area and these areas of discretion. We are doing them no service.