Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the median age has been of women undergoing IVF who had 10-14 eggs collected and had frozen embryos allowed to perish from fresh stimulated cycles in each year since 2013.
The information requested is shown in the following table:
Median age of woman: eggs collected and frozen embryos allowed to perish | ||||
Year of egg collection | 1 to 9 eggs collected | 10 to 14 eggs collected | 15 to 20 eggs collected | 21 or more eggs collected |
2013 | 34 | 33 | 33 | 31 |
2014 | 34 | 33 | 33 | 32 |
2015 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 32 |
2016 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 32 |
2017 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 32 |
Source: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)
The data is as shown on the HFEA’s register database on 8 January 2019. This is a live database so these figures reflect the data on this day and are likely to change over time.