Question
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answers by Lord Triesman on 29 October 2007 (WA 144) and by Lord Darzi of Denham on 10 January 2008 (WA 216) and 18 June 2009 (WA 226), at what point the Newcastle Primary Care Trust switched to offering three cycles of in vitro fertilisation to eligible patients instead of one treatment cycle;and what is known about the impact of this change in policy on the tendency of women to provide their eggs for research involving cloned human embryos.
Answer
Newcastle Primary Care Trust (PCT) has offered three cycles of in vitro fertilisation to eligible patients from 1 April 2009. We do not hold information on whether PCT funding criteria has an impact on the tendency of women to donate their eggs for research.