Embryos
(asked on 5th April 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 human embryos were discarded in the last 12 months for which figures are available; how many human embryos were transferred to uteri in order to establish pregnancies; and what the cumulative figures are for those procedures were made legal.
The information requested is shown in the following table.
| Between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2017 | Between 1 August 1991 and 31 December 2017 |
Embryos discarded in the course of treatment, or subsequent to having been taken out of storage | 174,622 embryos | 2,753,560 embryos |
Embryos transferred to uteri in order to establish pregnancies | 84,004 embryos | 1,900,901 embryos |
Source: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)
The data is as shown on the HFEA’s register database on 9 April 2019. This is a live database so these figures reflect the data on this day are likely to change over time.