§ Mr. McCrindleasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if there has been any reduction in the number of replacement kidney operations since 1 February 1983; and to what factors he attributes the change.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeI refer my hon. Friend to my reply to the right hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, (Mr. Ashley) South on 24 March—[Vol. 39, c.486]. The slight decline in the average weekly number of kidney transplants notified to the United Kingdom transplant service since 1 February is well within the margin of normal variation.