In Vitro Fertilisation

(asked on 31st October 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government in each year from 2008 to 2015 what is the incidence of foetal abnormalities in births which have resulted from treatments using (1) oocytes frozen for a patients' own use in the UK, and (2) frozen oocytes used for the purpose of donation to another woman.


This question was answered on 8th November 2016

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has provided data in the following table. The HFEA advises that it can only provide data for outcomes up to 30/06/2014.

Year of Treatment

Outcomes where abnormalities, or possible abnormalities, were seen

Patients using their own Eggs

Patients using donor eggs

2008

0

0

2009

Less than 5

0

2010

0

0

2011

0

Less than 5

2012

0

0

2013

0

0

2014 (mid year for births)

0

0

Reticulating Splines