Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Thornton on 9 November 2009 (WA 111) regarding the numbers of eggs used for research, whether the full reconciliation undertaken by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) explained how the number of eggs described in a published research paper was greater than the number contributed to research according to HFEA records.
Answer
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that it is not required in law to collect and hold information about the use of eggs in research. The information it does hold is, therefore, incomplete and limited.