Speeches

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