Lord Kamall, the Department of Health and Social Care, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3361):
Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 11 February 2020 (HL1173), how many human embryos were (1) deliberately destroyed, and (2) transferred to uteri to establish pregnancies, in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available; and how many human embryos have been (a) deliberately destroyed, and (b) transferred to uteri since such procedures were made legal. (HL3361)
Tabled on: 25 October 2021
Answer:
Lord Kamall:
The following table shows the number of embryos discarded and transferred to uteri to establish pregnancies from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019. The data is the latest information available and as shown on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s (HFEA) register database on 27 August 2021.
Month
Embryos discarded
Embryos transferred
January 2019
12,004
5,109
February 2019
15,731
7,074
March 2019
16,740
7,324
April 2019
15,137
6,503
May 2019
14,581
6,456
June 2019
13,326
6,119
July 2019
14,893
6,496
August 2019
14,938
6,739
September 2019
13,895
6,149
October 2019
15,225
6,889
November 2019
16,765
7,434
December 2019
9,680
4,135
Total 2019
172,915
76,427
Source: HFEA
The following table shows the cumulative figures for how many human embryos have been discarded and transferred to uteri from 1 August 1991 to 31 December 2019. The figures include additional validated data from previous years.
Total number of embryos discarded
3,106,319
Total number of embryos transferred
2,056,449
Source: HFEA
Date and time of answer: 11 Nov 2021 at 13:32.
