PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Embryos (5 April 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many human embryos were discarded in the last 12 months for which figures are available; how many human embryos were transferred to uteri in order to establish pregnancies; and what the cumulative figures are for those procedures were made legal.

Asked by:
Sir Edward Leigh (Conservative)

The information requested is shown in the following table.

	Between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2017	Between 1 August 1991 and 31 December 2017
Embryos discarded in the course of treatment, or subsequent to having been taken out of storage	174,622 embryos	2,753,560 embryos
Embryos transferred to uteri in order to establish pregnancies	84,004 embryos	1,900,901 embryos

Source: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)

The data is as shown on the HFEA’s register database on 9 April 2019. This is a live database so these figures reflect the data on this day are likely to change over time.

Answered by:
Dame Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative)
15 April 2019