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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 Friday, 24 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, approximately how many non - direct altruistic organ donations have there been in each of the last ten years.

Answer

Non‑direct altruistic organ donation is managed by NHS Blood and Transplant, which is responsible for organ donation services. Non‑direct altruistic donation involves people donating an organ, such as a kidney or a lobe of liver, as a living donor without knowing the recipient or expecting anything in return. The following table shows the number of non-direct altruistic donations across the United Kingdom, split by organ, namely kidney or liver:

Financial year

Non-direct altruistic kidney donations

2016/17

86

2017/18

89

2018/19

64

2019/20

96

2020/21

34

2021/22

72

2022/23

83

2023/24

48

2024/25

62

2025/26

58

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

For every financial year since 2016/17, there has been five or less non-direct altruistic liver lobe donations. There has been a total of 14 non-direct altruistic liver lobe donations in the past ten years.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
128195
Session
2024-26
Subjects
Donors Organs
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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