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Health and Social Care Bill

This is simply a request for the Minister to clarify the relationship between these provisions and the Human Tissue Act. Will she also either clarify the position or consider tabling an amendment on a way of distinguishing between a containable problem, however severe, and an overwhelming catastrophe? People may behave in quite different ways. In an overwhelming national catastrophe, even finding a magistrate might be difficult, whereas, in a containable event, one would want families to have some right of appeal. The noble Earl, Lord Howe, has eloquently introduced the word ““proportionality”” into the discussion. I wonder whether it should feature in an amendment to the Bill to distinguish between these two extremes and the spectrum that lies between them.