Clause 31 - Requirements for approval
Mental Capacity Bill
9:30 am
Mrs Angela Browning (Tiverton and Honiton, Conservative)
My hon. Friend might be aware that a year or so ago, with the assistance of the Home Office, I helped to introduce a new rule on the taking of blood samples when, for example, somebody enters casualty unconscious but might be the perpetrator of a fatal road accident as a result of drink-driving. I had many discussions with the BMA ethics committee in the run-up, and we eventually got a solution. It seemed unfair that somebody could go into the mortuary of a hospital having been the victim of a drink-driver, whereas the drink-driver could go into casualty with all the protections that have been mentioned.