Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many research licences were (a) granted and (b) refused by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in each of the last 10 years.
The information requested is set out in the following table.
Year | Number of research licences granted | Number of research licences refused |
2004 | 21 | 3 |
2005 | 23 | 0 |
2006 | 26 | 0 |
2007 | 9 | 0 |
2008 | 17 | 0 |
2009 | 14 | 0 |
2010 | 13 | 1 |
2011 | 6 | 0 |
2012 | 16 | 0 |
2013 | 4 | 0 |
2014 | 9 | 0 |
Total | 158 | 4 |