Greg Mulholland – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2015-10-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people on the NHS Organ Donor Register in each of the last five years; and what the number of such people was in each region of the UK.
Jane Ellison
The number of people on the NHS Organ Donor Register in each of the last five years, broken down by region, can be found in the table below:
Number on the NHS Organ Donor Register by region: 31 March 2011-31 March 2015, together with the most up-to-date figure as of 18 October 2015
Area |
31 March 2011 |
31 March 2012 |
31 March 2013 |
31 March 2014 |
31 March 2015 |
18 October 2015 |
North East |
692,025 |
724,367 |
755,971 |
786,099 |
817,354 |
846,355 |
North West |
1,819,300 |
1,898,176 |
1,984,094 |
2,061,533 |
2,154,676 |
2,238,884 |
Yorkshire and the Humber |
1,402,162 |
1,470,360 |
1,531,114 |
1,595,261 |
1,652,951 |
1,703,749 |
East Midlands |
1,203,101 |
1,254,266 |
1,312,788 |
1,368,396 |
1,432,189 |
1,486,106 |
West Midlands |
1,289,144 |
1,352,095 |
1,410,060 |
1,470,151 |
1,527,821 |
1,582,604 |
East of England |
1,698,671 |
1,785,398 |
1,866,624 |
1,955,199 |
2,040,484 |
2,111,254 |
London |
1,842,526 |
1,952,484 |
2,038,271 |
2,132,217 |
2,228,770 |
2,297,952 |
South East Coast |
1,402,501 |
1,465,911 |
1,528,297 |
1,568,285 |
1,660,143 |
1,737,706 |
South Central |
1,274,839 |
1,344,484 |
1,406,769 |
1,476,392 |
1,533,499 |
1,584,697 |
South West |
1,790,479 |
1,871,061 |
1,943,719 |
2,035,651 |
2,119,347 |
2,198,641 |
Wales |
900,250 |
938,406 |
969,276 |
1,005,213 |
1,047,039 |
1,076,199 |
Scotland |
1,856,932 |
2,024,867 |
2,146,305 |
2,110,394 |
2,166,994 |
2,248,191 |
Northern Island |
485,050 |
520,975 |
548,291 |
582,554 |
618,543 |
649,678 |
Isle of Man |
9,779 |
10,596 |
11,115 |
11,629 |
11,984 |
12,119 |
Channel Islands |
12,772 |
13,257 |
14,347 |
15,923 |
16,326 |
16,865 |
UK Unknown |
72,264 |
66,846 |
65,765 |
64,818 |
69,233 |
67,454 |
Source: NHS Blood and Transplant