§ Rev. Martin Smythasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list those private nursing homes and National Health Service hospitals licensed by the Scottish Home and Health Department to supply dead foetal material to National Health Service and private research institutions; what quantity of foetal material is supplied; whether a charge is made for this supply; and for what purpose foetal material is required by these research institutions.
§ Mr. John MacKayAny arrangements for the supply of foetal material from NHS hospitals are the responsibility of individual health boards and no information about this is held centrally. Approved nursing homes are required to make application to my Department if they propose to supply foetal material, but no application has been submitted. A code of practice on the use of disposal of foetal material was recommended in the report in 1972 of the advisory group on the use of foetuses and foetal material for research (the Peel report).