Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a ban on organ tourism to China as implemented by Italy, Spain, Israel and Taiwan.

We are aware of reports that allege that organ harvesting may be taking place in China, including suggestions that minority and religious groups are being specifically targeted. The British Government continues to take these reports extremely seriously although at present, our assessment is that there is not a strong enough evidential base to substantiate the claim that systematic state-sponsored or sanctioned organ harvesting is taking place in China.

We continue to scrutinise the situation carefully and review new information as it becomes available. To that end, I have asked officials to look into the measures reportedly introduced in several other countries relating to travel to China for organ transplants.

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