PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
IVF (4 January 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the median age has been of women undergoing IVF who had 21 or more eggs collected and had fresh embryos that were allowed to perish from fresh stimulated cycles in each year since 2013.

Asked by:
Dame Siobhain McDonagh (Labour)

The information requested is shown in the following table:

Median age of woman: 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	36	34	34	33
2014	36	34	33	33
2015	36	34	33	33
2016	36	34	34	33
2017	36	35	34	33

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.

Answered by:
Dame Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative)
14 January 2019