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These initiatives were driven by Lord Winston, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
A Bill to require the declaration relating to animal research to be placed on medicinal products' labels.
Lord Winston has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
The following table shows the number of patients storing their own eggs in each year from 2014 to 2019.
Year of treatment | Number of patients |
2014 | 611 |
2015 | 906 |
2016 | 1,064 |
2017 | 1,209 |
2018 | 1,595 |
2019 | 1,937 |
Source: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)
Note:
The data is as shown on the HFEA’s register database on 21 October 2022. This is a live database so these figures reflect the data on this day are likely to change over time. Data shown includes patients storing their eggs for future use.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) 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. This can lead the HFEA to recommend new information for patients regarding the risks of any treatment.
The following table shows the number of live births and congenital abnormalities from treatments using patients thawed eggs from 2014 to 2019.
Live births at term | 205 |
Congenital abnormalities | 7 |
Source: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)
Notes:
This information is not held in the format requested. However, the following table shows the number of pregnancies and miscarriages from treatments using patients own thawed eggs from 2014 to 2019.
Pregnancies | 286 |
Miscarriages | 47 |
Source: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)
Notes:
The following table shows the number of embryos created and transferred from patients’ own thawed eggs from 2014 to 2019.
Embryos created | 7,257 |
Embryos transferred | 1,685 |
Source: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)
Notes:
1. Due to the way data is stored, the HFEA has advised that it cannot easily link egg storage cycles with a high degree of accuracy. Data is therefore provided as total embryos created or transferred within the required period, rather than a subset of eggs stored.
2. The data is as shown on the HFEA’s register database on 20 October 2022. This is a live database so these figures reflect the data on this day and are likely to change over time. Data shown includes only treatments using patients own thawed eggs.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that there were 111 United Kingdom clinics licensed to undertake egg storage for clinical use in 2021/2022.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority does not collect this information.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has not undertaken any clinical or other follow up in relation to the cohorts identified.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has granted a licence to one clinic, Newcastle Fertility Centre at Life, to undertake screening and treatment for mitochondrial disorders.
Five patients at risk of producing a child with mitochondrial pathologies have undergone treatment using in vitro fertilisation and nuclear or spindle transfer.
No births have been achieved following those treatments to date.