Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill

I am grateful for that and thank my hon. Friend very much indeed. His support throughout has been...

I am here to support the hon. Gentleman’s Bill, but I ask him to engage with the Jewish community...

I am very pleased to have taken that intervention. I remember that one of the former Prime Minist...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on his Bill, and I know that he has put in a lot of hard work into ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend and my honourable colleague from our shared city—we are both immi...

I apologise for having just arrived, Mr Speaker. I thank my hon. Friend for what he said. It is w...

That is indeed our aim. However, I shall sound certain notes of caution about what we need to do ...

I thank my hon. Friend for introducing this Bill. I think that he will move on to the point that ...

Indeed, and the consequence is that to some extent we are victims of our success. We now have a g...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on his campaign. There are 90,000 residents in Doncaster who are on...

The whole House will be touched by the constituency case that my right hon. Friend raises, and it...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on the Bill, which I support. Many of my constituents have contacte...

I think that that is one of the most moving aspects. We held a reception last night. Many of thos...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech, and I am, of course, here to support him. The sad r...

We would encourage that across the board. Although my hon. Friend draws attention to a vital area...

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on the Bill, which I support. May I pursue the point made by th...

The right hon. Lady raises a difficult but important issue. As part of the soft opt-out, there wi...

I, too, congratulate the hon. Gentleman on the Bill, which I support. Does he agree that the poin...

Yes. I shall refer to some of the circumferential investment that will be necessary to ensure tha...

I think it fair to say that most, if not all, Members who are present today are here because we s...

I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s thoughtful and apposite intervention, and I can give him t...

I am here to support the Bill, but, as a Wales Member, I want to provide some reassurance. Wales ...

I am very grateful for that intervention, in every sense. I was going to come on to the situation...

The hon. Gentleman glossed over Wales in his remarks, but Welsh Assembly Government research show...

That is a very moderate intervention from the hon. Gentleman, for which I am grateful. He is prob...

May I give the hon. Gentleman some good news on Wales? The legislation in Wales was pioneering, a...

It was because the figure was so low in 2013 that the Welsh Government decided to move to an opt-...

My interest in this matter arose from a constituent—a young man—who came here and lobbied. A year...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend. It was his Bill that sparked my personal interest, and I pay gre...

I am delighted to appear as one of the supporters of the hon. Gentleman’s Bill, and am very pleas...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and the fact that he agreed to be a supporter of ...

I thank my hon. Friend for bringing this Bill to the House, and I will of course support it. He m...

I entirely agree with my hon. Friend and thank him for his intervention, but I would rather not g...

I strongly support my hon. Friend’s Bill. Alongside this measure and a number of the other things...

I entirely agree with my right hon. Friend. I do not know whether he was in the Chamber when I re...

My hon. Friend is making a good point about making people aware of the difference this can make. ...

I feel inclined to say that I rest my case, but I cannot quite do that just yet. I think I am oka...

Thank you very much for calling me to speak so early in the debate, Mr Speaker. I add my congratu...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry North West (Mr Robinson) on his success in ...

My heart goes out to the hon. Lady for what she has been going through, and I am sure everyone in...

Absolutely. As I have said, this sort of illness strikes indiscriminately, and when we attend app...

I wish the hon. Lady and Rebecca all the very best for the future. The Bill is really important, ...

Absolutely. Five members of my family, including me, put ourselves forward to be donors, but none...

It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Sunderland Central (Julie Elliott). We have all lea...

The hon. Member for Coventry North West (Mr Robinson) has identified a real issue that he support...

My hon. Friend makes a perfectly valid point that I am sure will be raised again in this debate, ...

Is my hon. Friend aware that in the past 10 years the number of organ donors has increased by 75%...

There is indeed, because there is still a long way to go and people are still dying because they ...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to speak in this very important de...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. He is making some extremely important points in his sp...

I am glad and thankful for the Minister’s very positive intervention and for the information that...

I support everything that my hon. Friend has said. Like him, I represent a constituency with a ve...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I was going to raise that matter myself, so I am th...

I am delighted to be here to support this Bill today. In doing so, I will not rehearse many of th...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North Devon (Peter Heaton-Jones), who spoke most m...

Mention has been made of religiously inclined Jewish people in this country. Some people will fee...

I wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend. He makes an incredibly important point. This is absol...

I thank my hon. Friend for making such a powerful speech. We often think of donors as being young...

My hon. Friend makes an incredibly important point, as she always does. As others have said, the ...

My hon. Friend the Member for Dewsbury (Paula Sherriff) made a very important point about age. I ...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. It reinforces the notion that, in addition to legislatio...

It is not entirely the same, but my son Max is alive today because he received a stem cell transp...

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. None of these things should be particularly contentious. ...

I support the Bill today. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley (Philip Davies), I am not en...

I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry North West (Mr Robinson) for introducing ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that although it can sometimes be a difficult conversation, these situa...

Yes, I do agree.

Steve Prescott’s widow, along with colleagues, friends and members of the ...

I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Coventry North West (Mr Robinson) on getting this B...

About 10% of people who are signed up to the organ donor register have excluded donating their ey...

I agree. Choice is the key to making the Bill as successful as possible, as is education. Some pe...

I thank the hon. Lady for raising that issue. Our community is experiencing what is called a sile...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention.

Only 1% of people a year die in circumstances s...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry North West (Mr Robinson) for introducing this impo...

My hon. Friend gives the excellent example of how Wales is leading the way in changing the emphas...

I share that concern, and I had hoped that today we could have cross-party consensus. This issue ...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Coventry North West (Mr Robinson) on promoting the Bill, and I...

May I ask my hon. Friend, as a doctor, how quickly the medical profession can assess whether some...

I cannot mislead the House, because unfortunately I am not a medical doctor and I am not able to ...

I will keep my remarks brief, Madam Deputy Speaker. I too support the Bill and I am delighted tha...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry North West (Mr Robinson) for securing this very im...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent case by citing statistics in England, but this is a cross-borde...

Yes, and I had not noticed that nobody from the Scottish National party is here. I do not know wh...

Will my hon. Friend recognise the great strides that the Labour party in Scotland has made in try...

Excellent. I am really grateful to my hon. Friend for updating us all on the situation in Scotlan...

I pay tribute to colleagues in Wales, my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry North West (Mr Robin...

Families are at the heart of this, as my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry North West, who is p...

The same applies to stem cell transplants, which I raised earlier. It simply is not acceptable th...

My hon. Friend has made exactly the right point. This does not apply only to, for instance, kidne...

I hope that the Bill succeeds and that there will be consultation with members of the BME communi...

That is precisely the point. It is a question of education and public awareness as well as the ac...

I am sorry to interrupt my hon. Friend while she is making such a strong point. One of my constit...

Absolutely. I think that schools are an ideal forum for a number of public health awareness messa...

During this debate, I went on to my phone and signed up as a full organ donor. Previously, I was ...

That would be great. Even the most technophobe of us should be able to manage doing that if it ta...

I have no knowledge of apps, but I do have my donor card here, held proudly in my hand, which I g...

Yes, very good, and I must apologise for not commending my hon. Friend on his Bill when I listed ...

I thank the hon. Member for Coventry North West (Mr Robinson) for bringing this Bill to the House...

I have spoken briefly about my own experience with my son, who was able to get a stem cell donor....

The hon. Gentleman puts that as well as it could possibly be expressed. That is entirely the moti...

I entirely support the Bill. Has the Department given any early thought to public engagement, so ...

My hon. Friend will be aware that we are consulting on the principles enshrined in this Bill. Tha...

Will the Minister give way?

I would like to make progress, so I will take no more interventions.

As I have made clear, ...

Will the Minister give way?

I will take no more interventions.

On the basis that we could save 200 lives, we wholeheart...

I do not much like self-congratulation, and moments when the House gets self-congratulatory can b...