Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department plans to take to monitor the long-term health and wellbeing of (a) people born following mitochondrial donation who have passed the age of 18 and choose not to remain part of a clinical trial and (b) the descendants of people born following mitochondrial donation.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015, if approved by Parliament, will not come into force until 29 October 2015.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) will consider how best to apply a monitoring framework to clinics awarded a licence to carry out mitochondrial donation treatment, against which it would inspect. The HFEA will announce its proposals for the regulation and monitoring of mitochondrial donation treatment cycles following the approval of regulations by Parliament.