{"value":{"id":1399697,"memberId":4909,"member":null,"memberRole":"Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Technology, Innovation and Life Sciences)","uin":"HLWS503","dateMade":"2022-01-05T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","title":"Ministerial Correction HL3362","text":"<p>I would like to inform the House that a written answer I gave on 2 November 2021, Official Report HL3362 to the noble Lord Alton of Liverpool, was incomplete. The text reflected the incorrect application by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) of restrictions on information publication for reasons of patient confidentially.</p><p>I would like to correct the record as below.</p><p>The Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench) To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the statement on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority website about the “limited evidence on risks and success rates” for mitochondrial replacement techniques; how many embryos have been generated to date using each particular technique; how many such embryos have been transferred to patients; how many confirmed pregnancies have resulted since then; and how such outcomes remain consistent with expectations from the scientific review by the HFEA in 2016 about the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Reply</strong></p><p>The Department of Health and Social Care has not made an assessment of the statement referred to from the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority (HFEA) website. The statement aims to provide basic information to potential patients and the reference to limited evidence on risks and success rates reflects that this treatment has only been available in the UK for the last few years.</p><p>The HFEA has advised that to date it has licensed 24 patients as eligible for mitochondrial donation treatment in the UK. 130 embryos have been produced and 9 embryos transferred during mitochondrial donation treatment. To protect patient confidentiality, information about whether or not there have been any confirmed pregnancies cannot be disclosed.</p><p>No assessment of the safety and efficacy of mitochondrial donation treatment has been made to date as the number of treatments in the UK is so low.</p>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1399697","method":"GET"}]}