Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ask NICE's implementation team to look at methods by which access to NHS tertiary infertility services can be improved in England.

The availability of National Health Service funded fertility treatment is and always has been a matter for local determination. Decisions on the level of service provision are made by clinical commissioning groups and underpinned by clinical insight and knowledge of local healthcare needs and priorities. The role of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is to develop guidance and quality standards to drive quality improvements in health and care; NICE has already developed NICE Guidance for fertility services and Quality Standards for fertility problems.