Organ Transplants (Living Donors)

HC Deb 27 April 1999 vol 330 cc135-6W

Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps she is taking to prevent the sale of human body parts from living donors; and what assessment she has made of the prevalence of this practice. [81859]

Mr. Foulkes

The World Health Organisation regulates the use of human organs for transplantation. The Department has no information on the prevalence of the practice of selling human body parts from living donors.