Ashley Dalton corrected a written answer on Blood: Donors
Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour, Clapham and Brixton Hill) asked written question 48519 on 28 April 2025. Ashley Dalton answered on 1 May 2025 for the Department of Health and Social Care, and Ashley Dalton corrected the answer on 23 June 2025. The figure 0.28 in the original became 0.65 in the correction, higher by 0.37. Altogether 4 words differ between the two versions.
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2025 to Question 45856 on Blood: Donors, how many and what proportion of the donors deferred due to the donor’s recent travel to other countries were of (a) African, (b) Caribbean, (c) mixed white and African heritage and (d) mixed white and Caribbean heritage.
Original and corrected answer
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| NHS Blood and Transplant is responsible for blood donation in England. The following table shows the number and proportion of deferrals due to the donor’s recent travel to other countries for those of African, Caribbean, mixed white and African, and mixed white and Caribbean heritage, from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, the most recent data available: Ethnicity | Number of deferrals due to donor’s recent travel to other countries | Proportion of total deferrals due to donor’s recent travel to other countries Black- African | 651 | 10.56% Black- Caribbean | 88 | 1.43% Mixed white and black African | 31 | 0.50% Mixed white and black Caribbean | | | NHS Blood and Transplant is responsible for blood donation in England. The following table shows the number and proportion of deferrals due to the donor’s recent travel to other countries for those of African, Caribbean, mixed white and African, and mixed white and Caribbean heritage, from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, the most recent data available: Ethnicity | Number of deferrals due to donor’s recent travel to other countries | Proportion of total deferrals due to donor’s recent travel to other countries Black- African | 651 | 10.56% Black- Caribbean | 88 | 1.43% Mixed white and black African | 31 | 0.50% Mixed white and black Caribbean | 40 | 0.65% |
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| Date read | 15 October 2026 |
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