In Vitro Fertilisation

(asked on 24th October 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Portrait
Lord Winston
(Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many of the oocytes frozen for a patient's own use in the UK since 2013 were frozen and thawed for the purpose of treatment by in vitro fertilisation; of those that were thawed, how many were successfully fertilised and appeared to develop normally; of those, how many were transferred to a uterus; and how many resulted in a live birth, a pregnancy, or a miscarriage.

Answered by
Lord O'Shaughnessy Portrait
Lord O'Shaughnessy
This question was answered on 1st November 2017

The information requested is shown in the following tables:

Of all treatment cycles in that year

Year of treatment

Eggs stored for the patient’s own use

Eggs thawed

Eggs fertilised

Embryos developed

Embryos transferred

2013

5,944

895

337

317

143

2014

7,124

1,119

488

475

176

2015

10,259

1,623

737

706

223

2016

6,199

1,204

590

584

179

Of cycles where exclusively embryos created from frozen eggs were transferred

Year of treatment

Pregnancies

Miscarriages

Births

2013

20

6

15

2014

20

3

15

2015

31

0

111

2016

222

n/a

n/a

Note:

Data has been provided for the latest verified data period:

1Up to 30 June 2015 for births; and

2Up to 30 June 2016 for pregnancies.

Source: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

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