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 15-20 eggs were collected for each year from 2013 to 2017.
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.