In Vitro Fertilisation

HC Deb 18 July 1991 vol 195 c286W

Mr. Hinchliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list those health authorities or trusts which either provide or fund the provision of in vitro fertilisation treatment.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

This information is not collected centrally.

The Interim Licensing Authority for Human in vitro Fertilisation and Embryology, which administers a voluntary licensing system, records in its 1991 report that 50 infertility treatment centres have now been licensed. It states that— One newly wholly NHS centre, the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, has been approved, taking the total number of clinics wholly funded by the NHS to three; 28 centres are wholly private and the remaining 19 make use of some NHS facilities or receive partial funding from the NHS.