Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Thornton on 19 January (WA 225) and Earl Howe on 8 July (WA 68–9), why the information held by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority on the use of eggs is necessarily limited if records are maintainedon the number of eggs collected per patient and the percentage of eggs used to create embryos used in treatment, cryopreserved or donated to research.
Answer
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that it holds information on the number of eggs donated to research as part of the data it collects on patients' treatment cycles. The HFEA is not legally required to collect data on eggs used in research.