Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2019 in increasing the number of organs available for donation; and if he will make a statement.
Initial data from NHS Blood and Transplant shows that in the first six months, 135 people donated their organs under deemed consent. This was 26% of all donations that took place during that time period, with a total of 341 organs transplanted.