To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his reply of 11 November, Official Report, column 408, about organ transplants, if he will make a statement about the meetings between the United Kingdom Transplant Support Service Authority and members of the medical profession about improving the distribution of organs as effectively and equitably as possible among the health regions.

The United Kingdom transplant support service authority has set up a number of professional groups to advise it on a number of matters concerned with the transplantation of different organs. The first meetings of some of these advisory groups have already taken place. Advice they gave is being taken into account in running the national organ distribution system.