Question follow-through · 20304

IVF

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will make an assessment of the eligibility criteria for IVF on access to treatment for (a) single patients and (b) same-sex female couples.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 16 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 18 Dec 2024
Answer: 31 Dec 2024 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will make an assessment of the eligibility criteria for IVF on access to treatment for (a) single patients and (b) same-sex female couples.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that between 2020 and 2022, the years in which they have the most recently data available, 25% of patients in same-sex female couples in the United Kingdom received National Health Service-funde...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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