§ Mr. PikeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to increase the number of live kidney donations. [69161]
§ Mr. LammyMy right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State announced plans to increase organ donation and transplantation, including living kidney donation, at a transplant summit in February 2001. UK transplant, a special health authority established to carry out a range of functions to support transplantation, has been given increased funding to help more renal transplant units to set up live donor transplant programmes.