Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 63280
IVF: Clinics
Tabled: 27 June 2025
Answered: 9 July 2025
Question
Sir Mark Hendrick
Labour (Co-op) — Preston
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that patients seeking fertility treatment are protected from unregulated concierge IVF clinics that fall outside the remit of the Human Fertilisat
Answer
Karin SmythDigital clinics do not currently fall within the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act and therefore are out outside of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s (HFEA) remit at present.The HFEA published Modernising Fertility Law in November 20...
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