Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on including information on the need for stem cell donation in the compulsory health education to be taught in secondary schools from September 2020.

The Department for Education is making health education compulsory in all state funded schools. The draft guidance includes the teaching of the science relating to blood, organ and stem cell donation. This will also be complemented by teaching in the national curriculum for science in maintained schools.

Schools will be encouraged and supported to teach this from September 2019 and required to do so from September 2020. The regulations have now been debated and passed in both Houses, so the draft guidance will be published as final shortly.