Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 68255

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, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of £985 per cycle payments to egg donors on the level of incentive to women from the poorest backgrounds to donate eggs because of fi

Answer

Karin Smyth
The compensation rate for egg donation is set by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), as provided for in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. The HFEA has advised that the donor compensation levels originally set in 2011 fo...

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