Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 71698
IVF: Donors
Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 8 September 2025
Question
Tracy Gilbert
Labour — Edinburgh North and Leith
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of (a) the health impacts of egg retrieval on and (b) the financial motivations of the 829 women aged between 18 and 20 who donated their eggs between 2000 and 2022.
Answer
Karin SmythThe Department does not plan to undertake an assessment, however, academic research in the United Kingdom has consistently found that donating eggs and sperm is driven by altruism.The compensation rate for egg donation is set by the Human Fertilisation an...
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