Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 23981

Fertility: Medical Treatments

Tabled: 14 January 2025
Answered: 23 January 2025
Named Day

Question

Alice Macdonald

Labour (Co-op)Norwich North

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of women being able to access paid leave for fertility treatment on the economy.

Answer

Justin Madders
Data from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) states that around 52,500 patients had in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and 3,000 had donor insemination (DI) treatment, at HFEA licensed fertility centres in the UK in 2022. The Department for...

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