Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England has made an assessment of the adequacy of current capacity to meet demand for (a) donor stem-cell transplants and (b) gene-edited autologous stem-cell transplants, including capacity for (i) apheresis, (ii) stem-cell laboratory services, (iii) workforce and (iv) protective isolation beds.

I refer the Hon. Member to the report from the expert working group on apheresis capacity published on 27 March, which is available at the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apheresis-capacity-in-england-report-of-the-apheresis-expert-working-group