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1694127

registered interest
date	06/03/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	IVF
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department holds on the number of children born as a result of IVF treatment in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	17247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) publishes annual reports on the number of children born as a result of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), and has a live database containing this information, that can be found on their website. The following table shows the number of live births as a result of IVF treatments, in each of the last 10 years:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year of treatment</p></td><td><p>Live births due to IVF treatments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>18,523</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>15,280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>21,057</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>21,236</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>22,086</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>21,305</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>20,801</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>20,066</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>19,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>17,967</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: data is from the HFEA annual report on fertility treatment and the HFEA dashboard.</p><p>Note: live births for 2019, 2020, and 2021 are preliminary, and have not yet undergone quality assurance processes, to verify that the data is correctly recorded on the register.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 11/03/2024 10:02:37 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1680889

registered interest
date	09/01/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	IVF
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department holds on the number and proportion of integrated care boards offering three full cycles of IVF in line with NICE guidelines as of 9 January 2023.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	8786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2024 answer text <p>As part of the first-year commitments in the Women’s Health Strategy, the Government published our in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) transparency tool on GOV.UK in July 2023. This tool compiles published integrated care board (ICB) policies on their local fertility treatment offer to keep track nationally of implementation progress.</p><p>From the data compiled from published ICB commissioning policy statements, currently three out of 42 ICBs provide three full IVF cycles in line with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence fertility guidelines.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 18/01/2024 15:39:25 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1680890

registered interest
date	09/01/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	IVF
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that integrated care boards follow NICE guidelines on the number of IVF cycles that should be offered to patients.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	8787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>Funding decisions for health services in England are made by integrated care boards (ICBs) and are based on the clinical needs of their local population. We expect these organisations to commission fertility services in line with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines, ensuring equal access to fertility treatment across England.</p><p>The Women’s Health Strategy was published on 20 July 2022 and contained several important changes and future ambitions to improve the variations in access to National Health Service-funded fertility services. We have set out our long-term ambition to end the postcode lottery in NHS-funded in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). NICE is currently reviewing the fertility guidelines and we expect the review to be published late in 2024.</p><p>We expect ICBs to be improving their broad offer to fertility patients in anticipation of implementing the new NICE guidelines. As part of the strategy’s commitments, NHS England will be assessing fertility provision across ICBs, with a view to removing non-clinical access criteria and assessing the challenge of implementing the new guidelines.</p><p>As part of the first-year commitments in the Women’s Health Strategy, the Government published an IVF transparency tool on GOV.UK in July 2023. This tool compiles published ICB policies on their local fertility treatment offer to keep track nationally of implementation progress and inform patients about comparative offers across ICBs.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 8788 8789 8790 question first answered 15/01/2024 15:17:25 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1680892

registered interest
date	09/01/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	IVF
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to tackle disparities in access to IVF treatment.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	8789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>Funding decisions for health services in England are made by integrated care boards (ICBs) and are based on the clinical needs of their local population. We expect these organisations to commission fertility services in line with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines, ensuring equal access to fertility treatment across England.</p><p>The Women’s Health Strategy was published on 20 July 2022 and contained several important changes and future ambitions to improve the variations in access to National Health Service-funded fertility services. We have set out our long-term ambition to end the postcode lottery in NHS-funded in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). NICE is currently reviewing the fertility guidelines and we expect the review to be published late in 2024.</p><p>We expect ICBs to be improving their broad offer to fertility patients in anticipation of implementing the new NICE guidelines. As part of the strategy’s commitments, NHS England will be assessing fertility provision across ICBs, with a view to removing non-clinical access criteria and assessing the challenge of implementing the new guidelines.</p><p>As part of the first-year commitments in the Women’s Health Strategy, the Government published an IVF transparency tool on GOV.UK in July 2023. This tool compiles published ICB policies on their local fertility treatment offer to keep track nationally of implementation progress and inform patients about comparative offers across ICBs.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 8787 8788 8790 question first answered 15/01/2024 15:17:25 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1679795

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	IVF
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the application of non-clinical criteria in determining the suitability of candidates for IVF treatment.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	8202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>The Women’s Health Strategy was published on 20 July 2022 and contained several important changes and future ambitions to improve the variations in access to National Health Service-funded fertility services. We will be working with NHS England this year to assess fertility provision across integrated care boards, which have responsibility for commissioning fertility services, with a view to removing non-clinical access criteria.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 11/01/2024 13:55:30 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1676647

registered interest
date	08/12/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	IVF
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) cycles of IVF were funded and (b) people received a cycle of IVF in each NHS region in the most recent year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	6038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2023 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 6037 6039 question first answered 14/12/2023 16:14:27 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1671836

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	IVF
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) cycles of IVF were funded and (b) people received a cycle of IVF in each (i) integrated care board and (ii) clinical commissioning group in each year since 1997.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	3006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 3010 question first answered 27/11/2023 15:04:45 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1668075

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	IVF
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines Fertility problems: assessment and treatment, published on 20 February 2013 and updated on 6 September 2017, what assessment they have made of the access criteria for IVF.
tabling member printed	Baroness Deech
uin	HL25
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2023 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) fertility guidelines are currently under review by NICE, who expects revised guidelines to be published by the end of 2024.</p><p>The Women’s Health Strategy sets out our longer-term ambition to work with NHS England and integrated care boards to ensure that the recommendations of the revised guidelines are fully implemented.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 14/11/2023 16:52:42 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	3756 label Biography information for Baroness Deech

1648703

registered interest
date	28/06/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	IVF
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Earl Howe on 15 July 2013 (HL1303) and by Lord Markham on 6 June 2023 (HL7725) and 27 June 2023 (HL8708), whether the implantation failure rate to date for pronuclear transfer is therefore entirely explicable on the basis of maternal age; or if not, what is the most plausible explanation for deviation from prior expectations.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL8864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2023 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that it has not made an assessment to date of the implantation failure rate for pronuclear transfer on the basis of maternal age, as the number to date is too low.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 12/07/2023 16:08:28 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1647681

registered interest
date	26/06/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	IVF
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken with NHS England to remove non-clinical eligibility criteria for IVF treatment.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	191156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>Funding decisions for health services in England, including IVF, are made by Integrated care boards (ICBs) and are based on the clinical needs of their local population.</p><p>The Women’s Health Strategy was published in August 2022 and contained a number of important changes and future ambitions to improve the variations in access to NHS funded fertility services.</p><p>We will improve access to IVF by removing the additional financial burden on female same-sex couples accessing treatment. We will be working with NHS England to assess fertility provision across ICBs, with a view to removing non-clinical access criteria. We will also work with stakeholders to improve information provision on fertility and fertility treatments, including on the NHS website, and introduce greater transparency of the local provision of IVF.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 191157 question first answered 03/07/2023 16:55:58 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 85281 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq