Women and Equalities Committee
18 March 2026
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Women and Equalities Committee House of Commons
00:06 - 00:41
Speaker 1
Order. Order. Good afternoon, and welcome to the women in equality's select committee. Today, we are holding an oral evidence session on egg donation and egg freezing, and we'll be hearing from Rachel Cutting, who's down the line, director of compliance and information at human fertilization and embryology authority. And then we've got Claire Ettinghausen, director of strategy and corporate affairs at HFEA.
And we've got Peter Thompson, chief executive as well. So thank you three for being with us today, and welcome. And I am gonna hand straight over to Rachel.
00:41 - 01:02
Speaker 2
Thank you. And thank you to all of you for joining us today whether in person or online. We do appreciate your time. Now multiple witnesses to this inquiry have told us already that the long term health risks of egg donation are under researched. Is that something that the h f e a accepts?
01:03 - 01:14
Speaker 3
I think we do. Yeah. So you're right. I think mean, I've looked at the evidence that you've had over the last weeks, and indeed the written submissions. And I think a couple of things come from that, don't they?
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