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Debate between Lisa Nandy and Baroness Featherstone(11 years, 11 months ago)
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Lynne Featherstone
We return where we can, obviously, but the important point is that we have a process for returning and we follow it.
Lisa Nandy (Wigan) (Lab)
Many of the children whom the Minister describes are age-disputed young people. Will she confirm that the appalling and shambolic X-ray pilot—described as “appalling” by the four UK Children’s Commissioners and subsequently abandoned—will not resume and that she will work with children’s professionals and medical experts to find an effective solution to the very difficult problem of determining the age of children?
Lynne Featherstone
The hon. Lady might or might not know that, in light of the view expressed by the National Research Ethics Service that that trial is research and therefore requires NRES approval, we have paused it while we work with our partners to seek formal ethical approval.