Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to updating the Human Tissue Act 2004 to ensure that records relating to UK citizens receiving transplant procedures abroad are monitored.

United Kingdom citizens are advised against travelling to less well-regulated countries to seek an organ transplant.

Data is not collected on people entering the UK who may have had a transplant in another country. Such transplant recipients may or may not become apparent to the National Health Service but the Government does not have any evidence of large-scale travel of British citizens to other regions seeking a transplant. There are no current plans to review the Human Tissue Act 2004.