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Miscarriage: Foetal Tissue

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what consideration he has given to the potential merits of creating a requirement for NHS trusts to maintain chain-of-custody records for the handling of miscarriage tissue.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
17 Apr 2026
Target answer date
23 Apr 2026
Answer
24 Apr 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Apr 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what consideration he has given to the potential merits of creating a requirement for NHS trusts to maintain chain-of-custody records for the handling of miscarriage tissue.

  2. 23 Apr 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 24 Apr 2026

    Answer published

    The Human Tissue Authority (HTA) has no plans to establish a single national protocol governing the handling or testing of miscarriage tissue, nor to establish a single national protocol for the communication of information regarding miscarriage tissue fo...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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