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Written Question
IVF: LGBT People
Tuesday 25th April 2023

Asked by: Jamie Wallis (Conservative - Bridgend)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure equal access to IVF for LGBTQ+ couples.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

Funding decisions for health services in England, including IVF, are made by integrated care boards and are based on the clinical needs of their local population.

We published the first Women’s Health Strategy on 20 July 2022, which contained a number of important changes and future ambitions to improve the variations in access to National Health Service-funded fertility services. This includes improving access to IVF for female same-sex couples by removing the additional financial burden they face when accessing treatment. We expect this to take effect during 2023.

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