Question follow-through · 83781
Blood: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help find rare blood type donors.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 6 Nov 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help find rare blood type donors.
23 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Nov 2025
Answer published
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is the organisation responsible for blood services in England. NHSBT works to find and encourage people with rare blood types to give blood to ensure blood of all types is available for patients when needed.In addition to ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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