Information released under FOI in 2010
This disclosure log displays a selection of responses the HFEA has issued to requests for information made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Although the information contained in the disclosure log was correct at the time of publication, it may not accurately represent the current situation in the matters being described. This information should be considered an historical record only.
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F-2010-00330 - Voluntary sterilisation - 19/01/2011
The Authority was asked for information about the number of patients receiving IVF treatment where the cause of the infertility was related to previous voluntary sterilisation.
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F-2010-00326 - Number of PGD cycles carried out annually - 17/12/2010
The Authority was asked for information about the number of cases of preimplantation genetic diagnosis undertaken each year in the UK
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F-2010-00320 - HFEA submissions relating to CSR and ALB reveiw - 14/01/2011
The Authority was asked for copies of documents submitted to central government since 12 May 2010 as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review or Public Bodies Review and related information
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F-2010-00316 - Voluntary redundancies - 10/12/2010
The Authority was asked for information relating to voluntary redundancies since 6 May 2010
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F-2010-00315 - NHS and privately funded treatment - 16/12/2010
The Authority was asked for information about the proportion of fertility treatment that takes place in the private rather than the NHS sector.
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F-2010-00296 - Ectopic pregnancies in the Eastern region - 17/12/2010
The Authority was asked for information about the percentage of ectopic pregnancies that have occurred following IVF in clinics in the East of England.
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F-2010-00288 - outcomes following sperm extraction for four centres - 07/12/2010
The Authority was asked for information about the outcomes for treatments involving TESA, MESA PESA and TeSE for four clinics.
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F-2010-00287 - Foreign and domestic donors - 16/12/2010
The Authority was asked for records that show the relationship between donor imports and donors known to the recipients to the overall number of donor registrations.
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F-2010-00286 - IVF outcome data and birth abnormalities - 26/11/2010
he Authority was asked for information about the overall UK outcomes for IVF and the proportion of children reported as having an abnormality at birth.
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F-2010-00282 - Sperm imports to the UK - 15/12/2010
The Authority was asked for information about the quantities of sperm imported into the UK compared with domestic donations, and the origin of the imports.
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F-2010-00271 - Sperm in storage - 12/11/2010
The Authority was asked for information about the sperm samples in storage in the UK over the period 1991 – 2010.
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F-2010-00271 - Sperm samples in storage - 12/11/2010
The Authority was asked for information about sperm samples in storage in the UK over the period 1991 – 2010.
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F-2010-00254 - Procurement of photocopiers, etc. - 12/11/2010
The Authority was asked about its procurement of photocopiers and other devices.
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F-2010-00250 - Staffing profiles at licensed centres - 18/11/2010
The Authority was asked for a list of staffing profiles, in yearly batches, for each IVF centre from 1 January 2000 and 1 January 2007.
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F-2010-00237 - Minutes of HFEA Ethics and Law Committee Meetings - 19/11/2010
The Authority was asked for copies of HFEA Ethics and Law Committee minutes prior to 2003.
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F-2010-00233 - Embryos donated for treatment and research 2008-09 - 05/11/2010
The Authority was asked for information about the number of embryos donated for the treatment of others and research purposes in the years 2008 and 2009.
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F-2010-00232 - Research licences - 13/10/2010
The Authority was asked for information about licences it has granted for research on human admixed embryos.
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F-2010-00231 - IVF treatments funded by Luton PCT - 12/11/2010
The Authority was asked for information about the outcomes of fertility treatments funded by Luton PCT.
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F-2010-00227 - Licensing of PGD and PGS - 03/11/2010
The Authority was asked for information about the number of applications for PGD it had refused in recent years.
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F-2010-00224 - Corporate information - 07/10/2010
The Authority was asked a series of questions about its staffing, premises policies and activities.
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F-2010-220 - Sperm donors' ethnic background - 07/10/2010
The Authority was asked for information about the percentage of sperm donors who are of Asian origin.
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F-2010-00215 - culture media - 27/10/2010
The Authority was asked for information about the findings gathered by the HFEA in response to the Chief Executive’s letter sent on the 26 June 2001
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F-2010-00212 - HFEA staff numbers - 28/09/2010
The Authority was asked to confirm how many employees it currently has.
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F-2010-00211 - Former partners' parental rights - 27/09/2010
The Authority was asked whether a woman's former partner has parental rights.
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F-2010-00210 - Births from donated embryos - 14/10/2010
The Authority was asked for information about the number of children born from IVF treatments using donated gametes, separating those where the treatment was part of a surrogacy arrangement.
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F-2010-00208 - List of practising embryologists - 22/09/2010
The Authority was asked for a list of licensed embryologists practising within the UK along with the address at which they practise.
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F-2010-00207 - Births following vitrification - 13/10/2010
The Authority was asked for information about the number of children born following FETs , where embryos were prepared by (1) vitrification and (2) by slow freezing, and the number of centres currently using each method.
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F-2010-00206 - Historical list of licensed IVF and DI clinics - 07/10/2010
The Authority was aked for a list of all IVF and DI clinics that have so far existed in UK.
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F-2010-00205 - IVF patients and subsequent cancers - 27/09/2010
The Authority was asked for details of the number of patients, aged 35 to 44, who have received IVF/ICSI treatment who have subsequently gone on to develop cancer between 2001 and 2010.
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F-2010-00203 - Twin births following vitrification - 14/10/2010
The Authority was aked for information about the number of twin live birth events recorded in the UK following vitrified blastocyst frozen embryo transfers (FETs).
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F-2010-00202 - Embryo loss incidents - 06/10/2010
The HFEA was asked about for information about the number of incidents reported to it since 2005 resulting in the loss of one or more embryos.
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F-2010-00199 - IVF treatments, outcomes and patient relationships 2007-2009 - 12/10/2010
The Authority was asked for information about the number of IVF treatments and outcomes for 2007, 2008 and 2009, categorised according to patient relationship.
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F-2010-00197 - Number of IVF cycles in 2009 - 08/10/2010
The HFEA was asked for information about the number of IVF procedures performed in the UK in 2009.
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F-2010-00190 - HFEA involvement with party conferences - 10/09/2010
The Authority was asked for full copies of all correspondence with the governing political parties relating to their 2010 party conferences
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F-2010-00189 - Register data with clinic-specific information - 14/09/2010
The Authority was asked for version of the HFEA’s anonymised register data with clinic information attached to each record.
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F-2010-00184 - Legal advice on disclosure of donor codes - 23/08/2010
The Authority was asked for details of the legal advice upon which its decision to cease the disclosure of donor codes was based.
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F-2010-00183 Highest numbers of births using gametes from one donor - 21/09/2010
Three highest numbers of children born as a result of donations from (1) sperm and (2) egg donors
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F-2010-00177 - Introduction of HFEA inspection notebooks - 09/09/2010
The Authority was asked for relevant dates when inspection notebooks began to be kept or when the relevant records ceased to be kept, as well as the reasons for commencement and cessation of any such practices
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F-2010-00175 - Women consenting to research with identifiers - 17/08/2010
The Authority was asked what proportion of women consent to research based on data with identifiers
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F-2010-00174 - PGD for Deafness - 09/09/2010
The Authority was asked for information about applications from all clinics that have applied to use preimplantation genetic diagnosis (‘PGD’) for deafness.
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F-2010-00170 - Centres' use of electronic data interchange (EDI) - 12/08/2010
The HFEA was asked about UK licensed clinics that use Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to report information to the HFEA
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F-2010-00168 - Structure of Legal Team - 09/08/2010
The Authority was asked for a structure chart for its legal team with an indication of which positions are held by temporary or contract staff.
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F-2010-00167 - Staff profiles of licensed centres - 17/08/2010
The Authority was asked for data on staffing profiles for 76 centres between January 1999 and January 2000.
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F-2010-00165 - Verifying consent for research - 11/08/2010
The Authority was asked how it ascertains that consent for the purposes of licensed research has been obtained and about the linking of data on use of patient material in research with evidence that consent has been specifically obtained
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F-2010-00163 - Request for information pertaining to PGD with HLA tissue typing - 31/08/2010
Request for information pertaining to PGD with HLA tissue typing
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F-2010-00161 - Staff Health and Wellbeing week - 28/07/2010
The Authority was asked for details of all services offered during the Staff Health and Wellbeing Week and a breakdown of the costs of the week.
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F-2010-00158 - How much the Authority spent on alternative therapies including massage - 29/07/2010
The Authority was asked for details of how much it spent on alternative therapies including massage in the past 12 months being the calendar year July 2009 to July 2010; who authorised the provision of massage, how many staff were involved...
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F-2010-00154 - FET outcomes using donated gametes and embryos - 29/07/2010
The Authority was asked for information about the number of children born following transfer of previously frozen embryos where the embryos, or the sperm or eggs used to create them, were donated.
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F-2010-00152 - Request for data relating to egg donation - 10/08/2010
The HFEA received a query relating to egg donation data.
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F-2010-00151 - Use of PGD to detect BRCA 1 and 2 mutations - 06/08/2010
The HFEA was asked for information about the number of people who have sought or undergone preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for BRCA 1 and 2
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F-2010-00149 - Inspector notebooks relevant to inspection of centre 0017 on 2 December 2005
The Authority was asked to supply copies of all the pages from notebooks pertaining to the inspection of centre 0017 on 2nd December 2005.
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F-2010-00148 - Live birth statistics for the London Fertility Clinic - 26/07/2010
The HFEA was asked for the live birth statistics, including single and multiple births, for the London Fertility Clinic from the time the clinic was first licensed.
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F-2010-00140 - Cycle-based data broken down by age band and multiple births - 22/07/2010
The HFEA was asked for an analysis of outcomes from embryo donation and other treatment types including an analysis of age of mother and multiple births.
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F-2010-00139 - Outsourcing IT - 29/06/2010
The HFEA was asked if it outsourced its IT services.
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F-2010-00136 - Trade Unions - 28/06/2010
The HFEA was asked how much money it had paid to trade unions in 2008-09 and 2009-10.
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F2010-00132 - Request for staffing profiles for various named clinics - 19/07/2010
The Authority was asked for longitudinal data on the staffing profile of fertility centres which have provided IVF for the period 1999-2006.
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F-2010-00129 - Research & SCNT - 30/06/2010
The HFEA was asked for information regarding research involving the use of embryos created by somatic cell nuclear transplantation (SCNT).
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F-2010-00126 - 2008 overseas sperm donors - 13/07/2010
The HFEA was asked to supply a breakdown by country of the number of overseas sperm donors whose gametes were imported to the UK in 2008.
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F-2010-00125 - Number of data security breaches reported - 17/06/2010
How many data security breaches has the HFEA reported to the Information Commissioner since April 2009?
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F-2010-00122 - Renewal application R0179 - 30/06/2010
The HFEA was asked to supply a copy of the licence renewal application for research licence R0179.
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F-2010-00121 - Date change on web content - 17/06/2010
The HFEA was asked to explain when content on its website had changed and why this was not reflected in the footer of the relevant page.
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F-2010-00120 - SET gender outcomes & twinning rates - 08/07/2010
The HFEA was asked for data concerning gender outcomes following single embryo transfer and for data concerning monozygotic twinning rates.
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F-2010-00114 - IVF live birth data - 28/06/2010
The HFEA was asked for data on IVF births, including singleton and multiple births.
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