Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has visa arrangements in place to permit registered stem cell donors entry to the UK for the purpose of donating.

The Visitor route allows individuals to come to the UK to donate an organ to an identified recipient in the UK with whom they have a genuine or close personal relationship. They can also come to the UK to be assessed as a potential organ donor for an identified recipient in the UK with whom they have a genuine or close personal relationship.

Visitors are not permitted to donate organs (or stem cells) to an anonymous donor, other than as part of a paired or pooled donation.