Clause 45 - Surplus tissue
Human Tissue Bill
10:30 am
Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West and Abingdon, Liberal Democrat)
I hope that the Minister will accept that part 2 of schedule 1 makes it clear that that does not apply for public health monitoring purposes. We have had a debate about what that means—although it was not satisfactory and I suspect that we shall return to it. The term ''public health monitoring'' can and will include research, not just public health monitoring. The rubicon has been crossed in that respect. That is why many people find it difficult to understand that, for epidemiological and unleaked and anonymised research, that definition appears to be quite narrow.