Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will consider making it illegal for British citizens to travel to China to receive organ transplants until it is proven beyond doubt that the alleged practice of forced organ removal from prisoners of conscience in China has ended.

While UK physicians advise patients against it, it is very difficult to prevent UK citizens travelling to less well-regulated countries to seek an organ transplant. Although numbers in the UK are not collated, it is thought that very few patients in the UK choose to do so.

We welcomed China's move to stop using organs harvested from executed prisoners from January 2015. We continue to monitor the degree of implementation of this commitment, and encourage China to make further progress in bringing transparency to their organ transplant process.