Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people awaiting a kidney transplant who were not offered an operation because of (a) capacity and (b) safety concerns due to the covid-19 outbreak in each of the last six months.

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of kidney transplant centres closed, although four centres remained open throughout. Due to the different practices established across the United Kingdom and across organ groups with regards to waiting list management, it is not possible to give an accurate number for the number of patients who were suspended or did not receive an offer for a transplant.