Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have made stem cell donations in each year since 2020.
The British Society for Blood & Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy collects and publishes information on the number and type of stem cell transplants in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, with the latest published data being from 2021. In 2020, there were 3,566 stem cell transplants and in 2021 there were 4,279 stem cell transplants. These include stem cell transplants from donors related to the patient, donors unrelated to the patient and stem cell donations from cord blood.