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Fertility: Health Services

Asked by Dame Caroline DinenageConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 16 January 2025UIN 23307

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of existing regulation of the fertility industry.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) published Modernising Fertility Law in November 2023, its recommendations for updating the regulatory framework in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Women’s Health and Mental Health met with the HFEA Chair on 30 July 2024 to discuss these proposals and asked for the key issues to be prioritised.

The Government is currently considering this latest advice from the HFEA about the priority issues for law reform covering their regulatory powers.

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