Question follow-through · 23981
Fertility: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of women being able to access paid leave for fertility treatment on the economy.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jan 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of women being able to access paid leave for fertility treatment on the economy.
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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23 Jan 2025
Answer published
Data from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) states that around 52,500 patients had in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and 3,000 had donor insemination (DI) treatment, at HFEA licensed fertility centres in the UK in 2022. The Department for...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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