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, with regard to oocytes frozen for a patient's own use, in how many cases in each year since 2013 was more than one embryo transferred simultaneously to the uterus; and how many multiple pregnancies resulted.
The information requested is shown in the following table:
| Includes only cycles where exclusively more than one embryo created from a frozen egg was transferred | |
Year of treatment | Treatment cycles | Multiple pregnancies |
2013 | 50 | 3 |
2014 | 63 | 1 |
2015 | 85 | 7 |
2016 | 64 | 4 |
Note: Data has been provided for the latest verified data period: up to 30 June 2016 for pregnancies.
Source: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority