IVF
(asked on 6th March 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department holds on the number of children born as a result of IVF treatment in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) publishes annual reports on the number of children born as a result of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), and has a live database containing this information, that can be found on their website. The following table shows the number of live births as a result of IVF treatments, in each of the last 10 years:
Year of treatment | Live births due to IVF treatments |
2021 | 18,523 |
2020 | 15,280 |
2019 | 21,057 |
2018 | 21,236 |
2017 | 22,086 |
2016 | 21,305 |
2015 | 20,801 |
2014 | 20,066 |
2013 | 19,000 |
2012 | 17,967 |
Source: data is from the HFEA annual report on fertility treatment and the HFEA dashboard.
Note: live births for 2019, 2020, and 2021 are preliminary, and have not yet undergone quality assurance processes, to verify that the data is correctly recorded on the register.