Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to legislate to criminalise the visiting of China to receive organ transplants.

We are concerned about reports of involuntary organ removal taking place in China, and suggestions that minority and religious groups are being specifically targeted. We have raised this issue with the Chinese authorities.

Despite UK physicians advising patients against it, it is very difficult to prevent UK citizens travelling to less well-regulated countries to seek an organ transplant. Although numbers in the UK are not collated, it is thought that very few patients in the UK choose to do so. There are no plans to legislate on this issue.