Blood: Donors
(asked on 28th April 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2025 to Question 45856 on Blood: Donors, how many and what proportion of the donors deferred due to the donor’s recent travel to other countries were of (a) African, (b) Caribbean, (c) mixed white and African heritage and (d) mixed white and Caribbean heritage.
NHS Blood and Transplant is responsible for blood donation in England. The following table shows the number and proportion of deferrals due to the donor’s recent travel to other countries for those of African, Caribbean, mixed white and African, and mixed white and Caribbean heritage, from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, the most recent data available:
Ethnicity | Number of deferrals due to donor’s recent travel to other countries | Proportion of total deferrals due to donor’s recent travel to other countries |
Black- African | 651 | 10.56% |
Black- Caribbean | 88 | 1.43% |
Mixed white and black African | 31 | 0.50% |
Mixed white and black Caribbean | 17 | 0.28% |