PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
IVF (4 January 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many IVF cycles were undertaken where 21 or more eggs were collected and frozen embryos 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:

Number of in vitro fertilisation cycles: eggs collected and frozen embryos were allowed to perish
Year of egg collection	1 to 9 eggs collected	10 to 14 eggs collected	15 to 20 eggs collected	21 or more eggs collected
2013	826	1,126	1,000	997
2014	699	880	811	661
2015	657	823	700	695
2016	568	699	571	548
2017	430	533	487	479

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