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Human Tissue (Supply of Information about Transplants) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 [Draft]
The third item on our agenda is consideration of a negative instrument. The purpose of the instrument is to create a duty for relevant clinicians to notify the Human Tissue Authority if they are made aware that their patient has received a transplant outside the United Kingdom or if they have a reasonable suspicion that specified offences under human tissue or modern slavery legislation might have been committed.
The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the instrument at its meeting on 13 May 2025 and made no recommendations in relation to the instrument. No motion to annul has been received.
Emma, do you wish to make a comment?
I just want to identify the purpose of the instrument, which seems to be about supporting our being better able to procure data on organ transplantation, organ recipients and out-of-country transplantation. I am a former liver transplant nurse, and I have experience of kidney and pancreas transplants, too. We know that people move around the planet, and they might come to Scotland as the recipient, quite rightly, of organ donation, so I am interested in finding out how the instrument will support better information gathering.
Do you have a proposal, Ms Harper?
My question is whether we should write to the Government to ask for clarification on the instrument’s purpose and the ability to gather information and to ask how we support clinicians to ensure that they are aware of it.
Is the committee content to write to the minister on that basis and to postpone consideration of the LCM?
Members indicated agreement.
I suspend the meeting briefly to allow for a change of witnesses.
12:00 Meeting suspended.