Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have received cornea transplants aged under 18 in each of the last 3 years.

In the last three years, there has been a total of 469 finished consultant episodes recorded where there was any procedure of ‘other corneal graft procedure’ for patients aged zero to 17 years old, when accounting for activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the private sector. By year there were:

• 195 in 2022/23;
• 138 in 2023/24; and
• 136 in 2024/25.

This information has been gathered from the Hospital Episode Statistics dataset, which is published by NHS England.