Question
Lord Winston
Labour
Life peer
Lords
To ask Her Majesty’s Government in each year from 2008 to 2015 what is the incidence of foetal abnormalities in births which have resulted from treatments using (1) oocytes frozen for a patients' own use in the UK, and (2) frozen oocytes used for the purpose of donation to another woman.
Answered on
8 November 2016
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has provided data in the following table. The HFEA advises that it can only provide data for outcomes up to 30/06/2014.
Year of Treatment | Outcomes where abnormalities, or possible abnormalities, were seen | |
Patients using their own Eggs | Patients using donor eggs | |
2008 | 0 | 0 |
2009 | Less than 5 | 0 |
2010 | 0 | 0 |
2011 | 0 | Less than 5 |
2012 | 0 | 0 |
2013 | 0 | 0 |
2014 (mid year for births) | 0 | 0 |
Answered by
Department of Health and Social Care