In Vitro Fertilisation

(asked on 8th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many frozen embryos were allowed to perish from stimulated IVF cycles in which 10-14 eggs were collected for each year from 2013 to 2017.


Answered by
Matt Hancock Portrait
Matt Hancock
This question was answered on 16th October 2018

The information requested is shown in the following table:

Frozen embryos allowed to perish (from embryos created from those fresh stimulated cycles)

Fresh cycle year

1-9 eggs collected

10-14 eggs collected

15-20 eggs collected

21 and over eggs collected

2013

1,248

2,103

2,562

5,288

2014

1,055

1,698

1,873

2,874

2015

1,021

1,536

1,757

3,421

2016

929

1,307

1,301

2,129

2017

683

995

1,185

2,021

Source: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)

The data is based on embryos created from stimulated fresh in vitro fertilisation cycles, whether these embryos have been used at any time by the patient or a donor recipient.

The data is as shown on the HFEA’s register database on 10 October 2018. This is a live database so these figures reflect the data on this day and are likely to change over time.

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