Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many embryos produced without the direct intention of establishing pregnancies were transferred to uteri between 1 August 1991 and 31 December 2017; what techniques were used to produce embryos that were transferred; how affected patients were informed of this at the time; and what sanctions were imposed on the clinics responsible.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that there were no embryos produced without the direct intention of establishing pregnancies transferred to uteri between 1 August 1991 and 31 December 2017.