ORGAN DONOR SYMBOLS ON CREDIT AND BANK CARDS

Early day motion 1107, tabled 31 October 2000 by Hilary Benn (Labour). Signed by 53 members.

That this House, bearing in mind the growing shortage of human organs for transplantation, congratulates Goldfish/HFC Bank on its support for a new scheme to allow the organ donor symbol to be put on its credit cards by customers; believes that this is an effective way of increasing the number of people carrying organ donor cards; welcomes the backing given to the scheme by the Department of Health and United Kingdom Transplant; applauds the interest shown both in this initiative and in the general promotion or organ donation by other financial services companies, including Nationwide, MBNA, Europay (Mastercard) and VISA; and expresses the hope that the whole industry will demonstrate its support for the scheme by adopting it for all customers in due course.

Signatures by party: Labour 39, Liberal Democrat 9, Conservative 2, Labour/Co-operative 1, Plaid Cymru 1, Scottish National Party 1.