Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of IVF cycles where 21 or more eggs were collected and fresh embryos were transferred in fresh stimulated cycles in each year since 2013.
The information requested is shown in the following table:
Number of in vitro fertilisation cycles: eggs collected and fresh embryos transferred | ||||
Year of egg collection | 1 to 9 eggs collected | 10-14 eggs collected | 15 to 20 eggs collected | 21 or more eggs collected |
2013 | 19,973 | 10,857 | 5,995 | 2,113 |
2014 | 20,108 | 10,636 | 5,791 | 1,948 |
2015 | 19,679 | 10,401 | 5,530 | 1,926 |
2016 | 19,813 | 9,832 | 5,088 | 1,753 |
2017 | 18,963 | 9,714 | 5,150 | 1,765 |
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.