Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 20 July 2011 (WA 305–6), how many cybrid embryos have been generated with eggs from non-human species in total according to records held by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA); and how many other classes of “admixed human” embryos have been generated.[HL4175]
Answer
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that it has no further information to add to that provided in the Answer I gave the noble Lord about human admixed embryos on 20 July 2011 (Official Report, cols. WA 305-6).
The HFEA has also advised that the data it holds in relation to human embryos that have been created, frozen, destroyed and implanted are set out in the following table. It does not hold data in relation to embryos experimented upon.
The HFEA has an obligation to collect information as required by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. It is for the authority itself to determine what further information it considers appropriate to collect.
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HFEA
Human Embryo Data—Cycles from 1 August 1991 to 31 December
2011
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| Embryos
Frozen | Embryos
Discarded | Implanted | |||||
| Embryos
created | Embryos
stored for the patients
use | Embryos
stored for
donation | Embryos
stored for
research | Embryos
reported on the Treatment form as being
discarded | Embryos
reported on the Gamete Movement form as being removed from storage and
discarded | Embryos
transferred | Gestational
sacs
observed |
| 3,546,818 | 839,325 | 2,071 | 5,876 | 1,691,090 | 23,480 | 1,388,443 | 235,480 |
Source: Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority