Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 17534

IVF: Payments

Tabled: 3 December 2024
Answered: 10 December 2024

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason (a) women are paid of £985 per cycle for their eggs and (b) men are paid £45 per donation for their sperm.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Department has not commissioned research into the potential long-term health impact on young women's bodies of egg retrieval. However, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) set out strict requirements in its Licence Conditions and Co...
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