Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) implantation failures, (b) spontaneous miscarriages, (c) terminations of pregnancies and (d) live births have been recorded pursuant to clinical application in the UK of (i) pronuclear transfer and (ii) spindle-chromosomal complex transfer.
The following table shows how many implantation failures, spontaneous miscarriages, terminations of pregnancies, and live births, have been recorded pursuant to clinical application in the United Kingdom of pronuclear transfer, and spindle-chromosomal complex transfer.
| Pronuclear transfer | Spindle-chromosomal complex transfer |
Implantation failures1 | 20-23 | 0 |
Spontaneous miscarriages | 0 | 0 |
Terminations of pregnancy | 0 | 0 |
Live births |
| 0 |
Source: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)
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