Embryos
(asked on 25th October 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 11 February 2020 (HL1173), how many human embryos were (1) deliberately destroyed, and (2) transferred to uteri to establish pregnancies, in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available; and how many human embryos have been (a) deliberately destroyed, and (b) transferred to uteri since such procedures were made legal.
The following table shows the number of embryos discarded and transferred to uteri to establish pregnancies from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019. The data is the latest information available and as shown on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s (HFEA) register database on 27 August 2021.
Month | Embryos discarded | Embryos transferred |
January 2019 | 12,004 | 5,109 |
February 2019 | 15,731 | 7,074 |
March 2019 | 16,740 | 7,324 |
April 2019 | 15,137 | 6,503 |
May 2019 | 14,581 | 6,456 |
June 2019 | 13,326 | 6,119 |
July 2019 | 14,893 | 6,496 |
August 2019 | 14,938 | 6,739 |
September 2019 | 13,895 | 6,149 |
October 2019 | 15,225 | 6,889 |
November 2019 | 16,765 | 7,434 |
December 2019 | 9,680 | 4,135 |
Total 2019 | 172,915 | 76,427 |
Source: HFEA
The following table shows the cumulative figures for how many human embryos have been discarded and transferred to uteri from 1 August 1991 to 31 December 2019. The figures include additional validated data from previous years.
Total number of embryos discarded | 3,106,319 |
Total number of embryos transferred | 2,056,449 |
Source: HFEA