§ Mrs. Dunwoodyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many kidney transplants have been carried out in each of the last four years; and how many could at present be carried out if there were no shortage of kidney donors.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergThe numbers of kidney transplants notified to the United Kingdom transplant service as having been carried out in the United Kingdom in each of the last four years are as follows:
Number 1979 791 1980 894 1981 815 1982 1,030 It is not possible to give the figure requested in the second part of the question, but I understand that transplant centres have the capacity to perform considerably more operations if sufficient donor kidneys could be obtained.