Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many first-time blood donors gave blood in each of the last three years.
The following table shows the number of new blood donors in England from 1 November to 31 October in each year since 2019.
1 November 2019 to 31 October 2020 | 100,812 |
1 November 2020 to 31 October 2021 | 133,486 |
1 November 2021 to 31 October 2022 | 111,004 |
Source: NHS Blood and Transplant, November 2022.