LIKE many MPs over the years, Richard Taylor has a skeleton in his closet.
The difference in his case is that the skeleton is real - and worth the princely sum of £240.
He made the confession during a debate on the long-awaited Bill on organ retention, following the scandals in Bristol and Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool.
Dr Taylor, a former hospital consultant, argues the legislation is confusing in parts.
He told MPs: "I must own up to still possessing the skeleton that I bought as a student along with Gray's Anatomy and dissecting instruments - it cost the princely sum of £16.
"The language of the Bill is fairly incomprehensible...so I am not sure whether I have possession of the specimen only for the purpose for which I was so authorised to have possession of it.
"I am not sure whether I am legally allowed to lend it to my children for display in their schools during lessons in human biology.
"I am not sure whether I am allowed to sell it at what would be its value today of something like 240 quid.
"That is just one example of how difficult it is to understand provisions in the Bill."
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