Annual activity data collection

Make sure you select ‘save draft’ at regular intervals when inputting your data on the same page. You can save your form at any point so you do not have to do everything in one go.

The ‘previous page’ and ‘next page’ navigation buttons automatically save information every time they are selected. This allows you to move freely between pages without losing any information. You can also review and amend the information you have completed and add more information if you need to.

Do not select forwards and backwards in your browser, as any data you have not saved will be lost.

When you have submitted the form, you will be able to download a PDF copy of the data and print the information you submitted.

Your contact details and licence information will be automatically populated on the first page of the submission form. If these are incorrect, please update them in the ‘Edit’ section of the homepage in your HTA Portal account.

You will need to manually complete the contact name, email address and postal address for your finance department so we know who to contact regarding your 2026/27 fees.

You will need to declare the licensable activities that your establishment undertook between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025. Please select all the appropriate boxes that apply to your establishment.

You need to declare whether your establishment stores relevant material for a Scheduled Purpose under the Human Tissue Act 2004.

This means where you are storing relevant material that is not used for patient treatment but will be used for one of the purposes listed below:

• Anatomical examination;
• Determining cause of death;
• Establishing after a person’s death the efficacy of any drug other treatment administered to them;
• Obtaining scientific or medical information about a living or deceased person which may be relevant to any other person (including a future person);
• Public display;
• Research in connection with disorders, or the functioning, of the human body;
• Clinical audit;
• Education or training relating to human health;
• Performance assessment;
• Public health monitoring; or
• Quality assurance.

We do not plan to charge any additional fee for this type of storage licence in 2026/27, but you must make sure this activity is accurately reflected on your licence.

Please ensure you familiarise yourself with the annual activity questions about the different licensable activities. Inaccurate information could result in your establishment being charged incorrectly in 2026/27.

Unless otherwise indicated, only provide data about licensable activities undertaken under the authority of your HTA licence between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025.

If you did not carry out any licensable activities last year you will still need to submit a data return. To do so you must select the appropriate tissue type and input ‘0’ if no licensable activities were carried out in 2025.

Please find the questions that form this year’s data collection in the spreadsheet at the bottom of this page. Familiarising yourself with the questions in advance will help you prepare your answers before submitting your data on the HTA Portal by Tuesday 31 March 2026.

Before you submit the data, you will be asked to declare that the information you have entered is an accurate statement of your establishment’s activities during 2025. Please check your data is correct before you complete the declaration and click ‘submit’.
 

It may take a few seconds for the next page to populate, but please wait until you see the successful submission message which confirms we have received the data before you log out.
 

EEA: The European Economic Area (EEA) consists of the 27 Member States of the European Union in addition to Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein.

SLA: Service Level Agreement: This is an agreement between two HTA-licensed establishments.

TPA: Third Party Agreement: An agreement in writing between a Licence Holder (LH), or the DI on behalf of the LH, and another person or corporate body who does not hold an HTA licence for human application.

You will need to verify the tissue and cell types that your establishment worked with between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024. Please select all the boxes that apply to your establishment.

If you have carried out licensable activities, such as procurement and testing, for the purposes of generating the starting material for an ATMP, please choose the relevant tissue type with ATMP in brackets from the available list. For example, if you procured adipose tissue as the starting material for an ATMP, please select ‘Adipose (ATMP)’ from the list of tissue types.

Please complete a new annual activity sheet for each tissue type that you have worked with as the starting material for an ATMP.
 

If you buy acellular tissue and store it for end-use only - i.e. you are not a distributor of such products - please do not submit a return for any of these tissue types.

Count each artery and vein as a separate unit.

For patches or conduits, please treat these as separate tissue types and complete a form for each.