Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 68254

IVF: Donors

Tabled: 15 July 2025
Answered: 22 July 2025

Question

Rebecca Paul

ConservativeReigate

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of allowing young women to be solicited for egg donations by for-profit fertility clinics utilising adverts which do not list k

Answer

Karin Smyth
No such assessment has been made. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the United Kingdom’s fertility sector regulator, sets out strict requirements in its Licence Conditions and Code of Practice in relation to the recruitment of donor...

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