Consultation Responses

2003

• Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000: Review of the Code of Practice for part 5 (Medical Treatment and Research) and related issues

Scottish Executive

• Draft Mental Incapacity Bill for England and Wales

Westminster Parliament

2004

• Choosing the future: Genetics and reproductive decision making

UK Human Genetics Commission

• Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003: Code of Practice - Volume 1 

Scottish Executive - Health Department

• Consultation Paper on the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003: Regulations

Scottish Executive - Health Department

• Legislation Relating to Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation 

Scottish Executive - Health Department

• Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law

UK House of Commons - Science and Technology Committee

• Possible Scope and Structure of a Declaration on Universal Norms on Bioethics

International Bioethics Committee

2005

• Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 - Improving with Experience: Consultation

Scottish Executive – Health Department

• Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 – Code of Practice (Second Edition)

Scottish Executive – Health Department

• Dying with Dignity

Mr. Jeremy Purvis MSP

•  Consultation Paper on the Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill and Issues Relating to Adults with Incapacity

Scottish Executive – Health Department

• Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill

The Scottish Parliament – Health Committee

• The Ethics of prolonging life in fetuses and the newborn

Nuffield Council in Bioethics

• Protecting Vulnerable Adults – Securing their Safety

Scottish Executive – Health Department

• Review of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act

UK Department of Health

• House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report entitled ‘Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law’

UK Department of Health

• Report of the ad hoc advisory group on the operation of the Research Ethics Committees: Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations

Scottish Executive – Health Department

• The Regulation of Donor-Assisted Conception

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)

•  Tomorrow’s Children: A consultation on guidance to licensed fertility clinics on taking in account the welfare of children to be born of assisted conception treatment 

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)

2006

• Consultation Paper on the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Bill

Health Committee of the Scottish Parliament

• Consultation Paper on Choices & Boundaries: Should people be able to select embryos free from an inherited susceptibility to cancer?

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

• Consultation Paper on Donating Eggs for Research: Safeguarding Donors

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

2007

• Regulation of Hybrids and Chimera Embryos - Additional Written Evidence

UK House of Commons - Science and Technology Committee

• Consultation Paper on Hybrids and Chimeras

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

• Draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill

UK House of Commons and House of Lords Joint Committee

• Consultation Paper on multiple births after IVF

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

• Scientific Developments Relating to the Abortion Act 1967

UK House of Commons - Science and Technology Committee

• Regulation of Hybrids and Chimera Embryos

UK House of Commons - Science and Technology Committee

• Inquiry into the EU Commission’s Communication on organ donation and transplantation: Policy actions at the EU level

UK House of Lords – Select Committee on the European Union

2008

• Inquiry for the Organ Donation Taskforce

West Midlands NHS

• Inquiry into the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Bill

Scottish Parliament – Health and Sport Committee

• Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act – Designation of Competent Persons Regulations 2008 (Draft)

The Scottish Government – Public Health and Wellbeing Directorate

2009

• Animals containing human material: Call for Evidence

The Academy of Medical Sciences

• Interim Policy for Prosecutors in Respect of Cases of Assisted Suicide

Director of Public Prosecutions

• End of Life Choices (Scotland) Bill

Ms. Margo MacDonald MSP

• End of Life Treatment and Care: Good Practice in Decision Making: A Draft Consultation

General Medical Council

• Scottish Patients’ Rights Bill

The Scottish Government – Healthcare Policy and Strategy Directorate

• Proposed Palliative Care (Scotland) Bill

Ms. Roseanna Cunningham MSP

2010

• End of Life Assistance Bill

Ad-hoc Committee of the Scottish Parliament

2011

• The changing landscape of donation - Social and technological changes

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

2012

• Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill

Ms. Margo MacDonald MSP

• Consultation on proposals to transfer functions from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Human Tissue Authority

The UK Department of Health

• Consultation: Medical Frontiers – Debating Mitochondrial Replacement

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

• Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice

General Medical Council

2013

• Technical Consultation Paper on the Design of Data Sharing and Linking Service

NHS Scotland

• Human Trafficking (Scotland) Bill

Ms. Marra MSP - The Scottish Parliament

• Parliamentary Inquiry into Abortion on the Grounds of Disability

The UK Parliament

2014

• Consultation: ‘Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill’

Scottish Parliament

• Consultation: ‘Scottish Government Health Research Strategy’

Scottish Chief Scientist Office

• International Legislation: Maternal Spindle Transfer and Pro-Nuclear Transfer

Mr. Andrew Miller MP

• Consultation: ‘Mitochondrial Donation’

UK Department of Health

• The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015

House of Commons Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments

• The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015

House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee

• Consultation: ‘Mitochondrial Donation’

Science and Technology Committee of the UK Parliament

• Consultation: ‘Organ and Tissue Donation (Scotland) Bill’

Ms. Anne McTaggart MSP

2015

• Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Bill

Justice Committee - The Scottish Parliament

• Consultation: Transplantation (Authorisation of Removal of Organs etc.) (Scotland) Bill

Health and Sport Committee of the Scottish Parliament

2016

No consultations received

2017

• Consultation: Genomics and genome-editing

House of Commons Science and Technology Committee

• Consultation: Organs and Tissue Donation and Transplantation

Scottish Government

• Consultation: Religion, personal values and beliefs

General Pharmaceutical Council

2018

• Consultation: Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 Proposals for Reform

Scottish Government

• Consultation: Review of the Gender Recognition Act 2004

Scottish Government

• Consultation: Human Tissue (Authorisation) (Scotland) Bill

Scottish Parliament – Health and Sport Committee

• Consultation: Human Tissue (Authorisation) (Scotland) Bill - Supplementary Evidence

Scottish Parliament – Health and Sport Committee

2019

• Public Call for Evidence for the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing

The Royal Society

• Consultation: Building families through surrogacy: A joint consultation paper

Scottish Law Commission

2020

• Consultation: Gamete (egg, sperm) and embryo storage limits

UK Department of Health and Social Care

• Consultation: Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill

Scottish Government

2021

• Consultation: COVID-status certification

UK Cabinet Office

• Consultation: Future Arrangements for Early Medical Abortion at Home

Scottish Government

• Consultation: International Code of Medical Ethics

World Medical Association

• Technical Consultation: Donor Gamete (Egg and Sperm) and Embryo Storage Limits: Consequential Impacts

UK Department of Health and Social Care

• Consultation: Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill

 Liam McArthur MSP