Question follow-through · 17096
IVF: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a ban on advertisements for egg donors.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 10 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a ban on advertisements for egg donors.
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Dec 2024
Answer published
There are no plans to make an assessment on banning advertisements for egg donors. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) Code of Practice states that advertising should be designed with regard to the sensitive issues involved in recruiti...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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3 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has commissioned research into the potential long-term health impact on young women's bodies of egg retrieval.
IVF: Payments
3 Dec 2024 · 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.
IVF: Payments
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10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on its decision to not proceed with the approval of Durvalumab for recovering cancer patients.
Pharmacy: Access
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Pancreatic Cancer: Diagnosis and Health Education
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Respiratory Diseases: Screening
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Respiratory Diseases: Screening
16 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to widen the availability of spirometry testing in primary care settings.
Respiratory Diseases
18 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have presented at Accident and Emergency with respiratory concerns in the last six months.
Influenza: Vaccination
18 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to encourage uptake of the flu vaccination in 2024.
Mental Health Services: Universities
18 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on improving mental health provision in universities.
Medical Equipment: Energy
6 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the cost of electricity on people with health conditions requiring medical devices which use electricity.