Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of data from the Human Tissue Authority that over the past three years there were 253 "serious incidents" in hospital morgues where corpses were accidentally damaged, bereaved relatives shown the wrong body, or the remains of unborn babies incinerated against the wishes of the family.
The Government assesses data from the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) on serious incidents at quarterly accountability meetings.
When these incidents occur they are upsetting for the families of those involved; although they are rare, when they do happen we are assured that the HTA work with establishments to ensure that a thorough investigation takes place, and that improvements are made to reduce the risk of similar incidents happening again.