To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Earl Howe on 13 October (WA 73-4), whether the data in the journal Human Fertility (volume 10, issue 3, pages 183-7) were previously presented to members of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) at the HFEA Research Licence Committee Meeting on 14 September 2006; and, if so, why it is not possible for the HFEA to identify the licensed centres responsible for the incidence of hospitalisation due to ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) that was described therein.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that no meeting of its Research Licence Committee was held on 14 September 2006.