asked the Secretary of State for Transport under what authority applications for provisional driving licences are to be used as a vehicle for soliciting offers of human tissues for surgical purposes; whether he approved this use; and if he will make a statement.

I was pleased to inaugurate the despatch of kidney donor cards with first provisional driving licences on 14th March because, while no one who receives a card is in any way obliged to make use of it, a significant proportion of those who receive cards may be only too pleased to sign them. I do not think that humanitarianism needs statutory backing.