Asked by: Lord Winston (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many women in the UK whose eggs were frozen before they reached the age of 35 years subsequently had a live birth after these egg(s) were thawed, fertilised and transferred to the uterus.
Answered by Baroness Merron - 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.
Asked by: Lord Winston (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many women in the UK whose eggs were frozen after the age of 35 subsequently had a live birth after their egg(s) had been thawed.
Answered by Baroness Merron - 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.
Asked by: Lord Winston (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many human eggs (oocytes) were harvested and frozen by vitrification between the years 2014–24 for social purposes according to records kept by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; and how many of these eggs were subsequently thawed in order to undertake clinical treatment using in vitro fertilisation.
Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority does not hold information on the method of freezing for the whole period requested, or the reasons eggs were frozen.
Data is available from 2014 to 2023 showing 263,692 eggs collected for patients’ own use in egg storage and 33,861 eggs thawed for patients’ own use.
Asked by: Lord Winston (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what provisions they have put in place to ensure medical follow up of children who were conceived by in vitro fertilisation following oocyte freezing.
Answered by Baroness Merron - 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.