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Bone Marrow Register (PE687)

Wednesday 28 April 2004 Public Petitions Committee Petitions 5 contributions · 2 speakers

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Michael McMahon Lab The Convener · Hamilton North and Bellshill
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The final current petition for consideration today is PE687, on the donation of bone marrow and blood stem cells. The petitioners call on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Executive to run a campaign that encourages the donation of bone marrow and blood stem cells through a bone marrow register and to recognise and support organisations that recruit bone marrow donors.At its meeting on 10 December 2003, the committee agreed to write to the Minister for Health and Community Care to seek his views on the issues that the petition raised. In his response to the committee, the minister states that he met one of the petitioners, who lodged the petition on behalf of the Anthony Nolan Trust, and suggested that they might "apply for project grant funding from the Scottish Executive … A project could be designed to address both the areas identified in the petition."The minister's letter also says:"I agreed that officials would investigate ways in which the Executive might be able to assist in the promotion of the work of the Trust in Scotland."We could ask the petitioners whether they are satisfied with the Executive's response. Do members agree that that should be our starting point?Members indicated agreement.

Michael McMahon Lab The Convener · Hamilton North and Bellshill
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That concludes our consideration of current petitions.

Carolyn Leckie SSP Central Scotland
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I do not know whether this suggestion is procedurally competent, but can we also ask the petitioners on childhood vaccines to respond formally to the Executive's response to their petition PE676?

Michael McMahon Lab The Convener · Hamilton North and Bellshill
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I have no problem with that.We come now to item 5, which the committee has agreed to take in private.

Meeting continued in private until 12:39.

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