Lord Winston
Labour - Life peer
Joined House of Lords: 18th December 1995
Division Voting information
Lord Winston voted Aye - against a party majority and in line with the House
One of 18 Labour Aye votes vs 114 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 289 Noes - 118
Debates during the 2024 Parliament
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Sparring Partners
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
(23 debate interactions)
Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
(6 debate interactions)
Department Debates
(41 debate contributions)
(10 debate contributions)
(6 debate contributions)
(5 debate contributions)
Legislation Debates
(2,550 words contributed)
(1,755 words contributed)
(1,165 words contributed)
(890 words contributed)
Lords initiatives
These initiatives were driven by Lord Winston, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
1 Bill introduced by Lord Winston
A Bill to require the declaration relating to animal research to be placed on medicinal products' labels.
Friday 25th October 2013
Lord Winston has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
Latest 9 Written Questions
(View all written questions)The information is not available in the format requested. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) holds information on the number of pregnancies, interpreted as instances where one of more foetal heart pulsation was recorded, and records of total numbers of miscarriages, not by weeks, from 2014 to 2023 which is shown in the following table:
Pregnancies | 609 |
Miscarriages | 93 |
The data is as shown on the HFEA’s register database on 17 December 2025. This is a live database so these figures reflect the data on this day and are likely to change over time. This reflects time needed for clinics to submit data and undergo validation as stated on the HFEA register. Data shown includes only treatments using patients own thawed eggs.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Information is not available in the format requested. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has provided information on the total number of embryos transferred from patients’ own thawed eggs for the period 2014 to 2023, rather than a subset of eggs stored, which is shown in the following table:
Embryos transferred | 2,949 |
The data is as shown on the HFEA’s register database on 17 December 2025. This is a live database so these figures reflect the data on this day and are likely to change over time. This reflects time needed for clinics to submit data and undergo validation as stated on the HFEA register. Data shown includes only treatments using patients own thawed eggs.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information is not held in the format requested. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that it does not hold information on the method of freezing for the whole period requested, the reasons the eggs were frozen, or how many eggs did not thaw satisfactorily or were considered unsuitable and how many of the eggs thawed underwent attempts at fertilisation. The following table shows the number eggs fertilised, the number of embryos created, and the number of embryos transferred from 2014 to 2023:
Eggs fertilised | 29,029 |
Embryos created | 18,498 |
Embryos transferred | 2,949 |
Data is as recorded by the HFEA on 17 December 2025 and reflects the data on this date and therefore may change over time.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information is not available. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that it cannot provide the information as requested due to how the data is stored on the HFEA Register.
Work is currently ongoing so that this information can be provided over the next 12 to 18 months.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information is not available. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that it cannot provide the information as requested due to how the data is stored on the HFEA Register.
Work is currently ongoing so that this information can be provided over the next 12 to 18 months.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority does not categorise information on hospital admissions, significant morbidity, or internal abdominal haemorrhage or other damage in the abdomen by fertility treatment type.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), as the United Kingdom wide regulator of fertility treatment, has no statutory role in the medical follow up for children conceived through in vitro fertilisation, including instances where thawed eggs are used in treatment.
The HFEA’s expert Scientific and Clinical Advances Advisory Committee monitors new studies relating to assisted reproductive technologies, including any impact on children born from treatments.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) does not hold information on the reasons eggs were frozen. Data from 2015 to 2023 is available on the number of patients undergoing egg freezing cycles per year, without the reasons the eggs were frozen, and are as follows: 1,020 in 2015; 1,165 in 2016; 1,365 in 2017; 1,755 in 2018; 2,130 in 2019; 2,030 in 2020; 3,400 in 2021; 3,910 in 2022; and 5,515 in 2023. This information is from the HFEA Register.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)