§ Miss KirkbrideTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the Government's policy is on the repatriation of human remains. [145590]
§ Estelle MorrisThe Government have recently published the Human Tissue Bill, which includes a clause giving certain national museums a power to move human remains out of their collection, where they wish to do so.
This will implement the principal recommendation of the Working Group on Human remains. I shall be issuing a consultation document on the rest of the recommendations of the Working Group early in the 308W new year. The results of that consultation will inform the Government's wider response to the Working Group Report.