Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the value for money of the service provided by clinical commissioning groups that offer only partial cycles of IVF treatment.

The evidence reviews and recommendations of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) fertility guidance confirm that fertility problems can be managed cost effectively. Where NICE fertility guidance is not followed and an incomplete cycle of in vitro fertilisation, as defined by the NICE guidance, is offered this reduces the effectiveness, and thereby the value for money of the treatment.