In Vitro Fertilisation
(asked on 4th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many eggs have been used to enable (a) pro-nuclear transfer and (b) maternal spindle transfer in each year since 2015.
The information requested is shown in the following table:
Year | For research (total number of embryos entering the research pathway) | For treatment (includes patient and donor eggs used, excludes any eggs frozen following fresh egg collection where these did not form part of the pro-nuclear transfer treatment)1 |
2015 | 550 | 0 |
2016 | 243 | 0 |
2017 | 153 | 18 |
2018 | n/a2 | 38 |
Source: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)
Note:
1The data is as shown on the HFEA’s register database on 8 January 2019. This is a live database so these figures reflect the data on this day and are likely to change over time.
22018 data is not yet available.