Lord Winston: All Documents

Written Question

IVF

Monday 23rd March 2026

Asked by: Lord Winston (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government according to the records of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), how many women undergoing egg collection for the purposes of egg storage required admission to hospital or experienced other significant morbidity following ovarian stimulation and egg collection; and how many women were reported to have experienced internal abdominal haemorrhage or other damage in the abdomen following attempts at oocyte harvest.

Answered by Baroness Merron - 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.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 20 Mar 2026
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"I will just ask this question. I am genuinely a very simple doctor, and I do not really understand this problem. It is clearly a problem in ways that I think are humanitarian. At the moment in the House of Lords, we are discussing complex issues regarding precision medicine, which …..."
Lord Winston - View Speech

View all Lord Winston (Lab - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Division Vote (Lords)
18 Mar 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Winston (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 108 Labour No votes vs 2 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 68 Noes - 163

Division Vote (Lords)
18 Mar 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Winston (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 118 Labour No votes vs 3 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 119 Noes - 191

Division Vote (Lords)
18 Mar 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Winston (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 121 Labour No votes vs 6 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 148 Noes - 185

Division Vote (Lords)
18 Mar 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Winston (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 157 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 225 Noes - 189

Division Vote (Lords)
18 Mar 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Winston (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 110 Labour No votes vs 2 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 70 Noes - 166

Division Vote (Lords)
18 Mar 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Winston (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 116 Labour Aye votes vs 2 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 180 Noes - 58

Division Vote (Lords)
18 Mar 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Winston (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 142 Labour No votes vs 4 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 203 Noes - 148