IVF

(asked on 17th April 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the success rate of IVF is in each of the last ten years for which information is available.


Answered by
Ashley Dalton Portrait
Ashley Dalton
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 24th April 2025

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) publishes annual reports on their website which include success rates of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). The following table shows the success rate of IVF in each of the last ten years for which information is available:

Year of treatment

Birth rate per embryo transferred

2022

23%

2021

23%

2020

24%

2019

24%

2018

23%

2017

23%

2016

22%

2015

21%

2014

20%

2013

19%

Source: HFEA annual report on fertility treatment and the HFEA dashboard.

Notes:

  1. live births for 2019 to 2022 are preliminary and quality assurance processes with clinics have not yet completed; and
  2. data excludes embryos that have been previously frozen.
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