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Written question asked by Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party) on Monday, 20 April 2026, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 23 April 2026 (named day). A holding answer was provided on Friday, 24 April 2026. A substantive answer was provided by Zubir Ahmed (Labour) on Tuesday, 28 April 2026 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Organs: Donors

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many organ donations under deemed consent legislation have there been from deceased donors between 1st January (a) 2022, and (b) 2026.

Answer

NHS Blood and Transplant is responsible for organ donation in the United Kingdom and manages the NHS Organ Donor Register (ODR).

Deemed consent donors are people who became deceased donors, donating one or more organs, where no decision to donate had been recorded on the NHS ODR, and consent was therefore deemed under the relevant deemed consent legislation, with organ donation proceeding only where the donor’s family were available for consultation. The following table shows the number of deemed consent donors and the number of organs donated by deemed consent donors, both United Kingdom wide, from 2022 to 2025:

Year

Number of deemed consent donors

Number of organs donated by deemed consent donors

2022

439

1342

2023

455

1479

2024

381

1213

2025

404

1333

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant, using data from the UK Transplant Registry.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
128194
Session
2024-26
Subjects
Donors Organs
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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