§ Mr. McLoughlinTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many kidneys, hearts, livers and other organs have been transplanted each year since 1980; and what proportion of each group of transplant patients survive for longer than one year.
§ Mr. FreemanInformation on the number of organs transplanted in the years 1980 to 1987 was provided in my reply to the hon. Member for East Lothian (Mr. Home Robertson) on 22 December 1988 at columns397–98. I announced provisional figures for 1988 during the Adjournment debate on transplant surgery on 21 February at column 976.
My hon. and learned Friend the Minister for Health provided information on survival rates following transplant in a reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Sir M. McNair-Wilson) on 19 December at columns 130–31.