Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of improvements to the consistency of the implementation of fertility treatment guidelines in the last 12 months.

As part of the first-year commitments in the Women’s Health Strategy, the Government published our in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) transparency tool on GOV.UK in July 2023. This tool compiles published integrated care board (ICB) policies on their local fertility treatment offer to keep track nationally of implementation progress.

As part of keeping the tool up to date, we will review ICBs’ local policy statements in 2024, to check on progress with the implementation of National Institute for Heath and Care Excellence fertility guidelines.