内容摘要：More than 120 comments have been made on the planning application - the vast majority of which are objections.

More than 120 comments have been made on the planning application - the vast majority of which are objections.

from £530m to £3.2bn.The facility, designed to prepare the UK for dangerous pathogens, was branded a "critical piece of infrastructure" at a meeting of the government's public accounts committee.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves vowed to "get the best possible outcome" of land earmarked for the centre, which was purchased for £30m in 2017.More than £400m has already been spent on the project, according toIt was born out of concerns about the high-containment laboratories in Porton Down in Wiltshire, and Colindale in north London.

The sites have been essential for detecting and, including Ebola and Covid-19.

Cross-party MPs said the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) "lacks a grip of the financial pressures it faces" when they met.

They criticised delays in decision-making about whether or not the Harlow project would continue."This is a model that has been in place and worked in Oregon since the late 1990s, and more recently in all of the states in Australia and New Zealand. It commands overwhelming public support in those jurisdictions, as well as the confidence of the medical profession.

"We need to get the detail of any bill here in Scotland right, but there is no reason we can't follow a similar path."He urged MSPs to vote in favour of the bill and help create "the most compassionate, safe and suitable law for Scotland".

In October last year, First Minister John Swinney said he had "not come to a final view" on the issue but added that the proposed age threshold of 16 was "a very significant issue in my mind" which MSPs will have to "wrestle" with.MPs in England and Wales