In Vitro Fertilisation
(asked on 24th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, in respect of oocytes frozen for a patient's own use, how many pregnancies, births, and miscarriages have resulted in each year since 2013, after the fertilisation of such oocytes in cases when those oocytes were collected and cryopreserved after the patient had reached the age of 35.
The information requested is shown in the following table:
| Includes only cycles where exclusively embryos created from frozen eggs were transferred | ||
Year of treatment | Pregnancies | Miscarriages | Live birth events |
2013 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
2014 | 8 | 0 | 71 |
2015 | 9 | 0 | 32 |
2016 | 103 | n/a | n/a |
Notes:
1The outcome of one reported pregnancy in 2014 has yet to be notified to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) by the clinic that carried out the treatment cycle.
2Data for births has been provided for the latest verified data period: up to 30 June 2015.
3Data for pregnancies has been provided for the latest verified data period: up to 30 June 2016
Source: HFEA