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Written Question
IVF: Asylum
Monday 15th September 2025

Asked by: Chris Philp (Conservative - Croydon South)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many asylum seekers have received NHS-funded IVF treatment since 5 July 2024.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Neither the Department nor NHS England holds data on who accesses in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority publishes information on the numbers and IVF cycles carried out, including whether they were privately or National Health Service funded, but this does not cover the immigration status of the patient.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 May 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"May I add my congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for South Ribble (Seema Kennedy) on her appointment? I am sure the whole House wishes her well in her important work.

Related to the question of prescription drugs is that of vaccinations, where rates have been falling, partly driven …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Oct 2018
Budget Resolutions

"I thank the shadow Chancellor for giving way so early in his speech. May I refer him to page 39 of the Red Book, which shows clearly that, by fiscal year 2023-24, there will be a £30 billion fiscal loosening? He referred to the Resolution Foundation, but it says that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Oct 2018
Budget Resolutions

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 06 Jul 2018
Health and Social Care (National Data Guardian) Bill

"Can my hon. Friend let the House know what the equivalent arrangements are, if any, in Wales and Scotland?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 06 Jul 2018
Health and Social Care (National Data Guardian) Bill

"The British Heart Foundation recently said of the research environment that “too much” of its researchers’ time

“is taken up with unnecessary red tape and bureaucracy. The weight of this form-filling is slowing down vital discoveries”.

Does the hon. Gentleman share my hope that putting this role on a statutory …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 06 Jul 2018
Health and Social Care (National Data Guardian) Bill

"Does my hon. Friend hope that the Data Guardian will focus primarily on ensuring that data is being appropriately used? Does he share my hope that she will go further and seek to actively promote data sharing for use particularly in research applications?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 06 Jul 2018
Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Bill

"Clause 12(4) states:

“A failure by a police officer to comply with the requirements…does not…make the officer”

criminally liable. I think I am right in saying that such an officer would not be criminally liable. If I have misunderstood this, I am happy to be corrected...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 06 Jul 2018
Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Bill

"Let me start by congratulating my constituency neighbour, the hon. Member for Croydon North (Mr Reed), on piloting this piece of legislation through the occasionally shark-infested waters of the private Member’s Bill process. He has done a very good job in getting the Bill to this stage. It is a …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 06 Jul 2018
Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Bill

"I thank the Minister for her helpful intervention. Of course, I entirely sympathise with the point that Parliament should not impose unduly onerous requirements on already very busy and possibly, in some cases, overstretched mental health units, but I am concerned to make sure that we have not left a …..."
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