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Baroness Deech to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the report by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority Fertility treatment 2018: trends and figures, published on 30 June, which reported that "since 2013, the number of egg and embryo storage cycles increased fivefold to just under 9,000 cycles in 2018", what plans they have to expedite legislation to remove the 10-year time limit for which frozen eggs and embryos can be stored.  HL6352

Question HL6352: tabled on 1 July 2020 and due for answer by 15 July 2020

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Baroness Deech to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the report by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority Fertility treatment 2018: trends and figures, published on 30 June, which reported that "since 2013, the number of egg and embryo storage cycles increased fivefold to just under 9,000 cycles in 2018", what plans they have to expedite legislation to remove the 10-year time limit for which frozen eggs and embryos can be stored.  HL6352
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Baroness Deech
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