Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what provisions they have put in place to ensure medical follow up of children who were conceived by in vitro fertilisation following oocyte freezing.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), as the United Kingdom wide regulator of fertility treatment, has no statutory role in the medical follow up for children conceived through in vitro fertilisation, including instances where thawed eggs are used in treatment.

The HFEA’s expert Scientific and Clinical Advances Advisory Committee monitors new studies relating to assisted reproductive technologies, including any impact on children born from treatments.