Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2017 to Question 1450, what the consent and authorisation rate was in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland in the 2016-17 financial year.

The information is set out in the table below. Further information can be found in NHS Blood and Transplant’s Annual Activity Report for 2016/17, which was published on 11 July:

http://www.odt.nhs.uk/statistics-and-reports/annual-activity-report/

Consent/authorisation rates for 2016/17 by nation

England 63%

Wales 64%

Scotland 63%

Northern Ireland 64%

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant