Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has received representations on the origin of 20 skinless human bodies being exhibited at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham; and what information his Department holds on consents obtained for the (a) transportation and (b) exhibition of those bodies.

The Department has received representations relating to human bodies being exhibited at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. The Department does not hold information about consent, either for transportation or for the exhibition of the bodies concerned.