Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many IVF cycles have been undertaken in which 1-9 eggs were collected when fresh embryos allowed to perish from 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 embryos were allowed to perish | ||||
Year of egg collection | 1 to 9 eggs collected | 10-14 eggs collected | 15 to 20 eggs collected | 21 or more eggs collected |
2013 | 13,208 | 10,371 | 6,076 | 2,460 |
2014 | 13,850 | 10,417 | 6,131 | 2,569 |
2015 | 13,908 | 10,651 | 6,166 | 2,908 |
2016 | 14,341 | 10,398 | 5,941 | 3,046 |
2017 | 14,437 | 10,435 | 6,214 | 3,212 |
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.