Current Petitions

PE1135, from Rob McDowall, calls on the Parliament to urge the Government to review existing guidelines and risk assessment procedures to allow healthy gay and bisexual men to donate blood. We have had a chance to hear directly from petitioners on the matter. We are still waiting for information. I suggest that we continue the petition until the UK Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs has completed its review and that we ask the advisory committee whether it will include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups in the membership of its working group. This is a sensitive issue because of the procedures that have been applied in the past, but there is a genuine issue of engagement. Let us try to explore that. Do members agree to continue the petition on those grounds?Members indicated agreement.