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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 20 Jun 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Clive Efford (LAB - Eltham) In 2016, Exercise Cygnus tested the country’s preparedness for a pandemic. - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) We did what was recommended following Exercise Cygnus. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response: International Agreement - Mon 17 Apr 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Danny Kruger (CON - Devizes) Friend the Member for Winchester (Steve Brine) is absolutely right: fundamentally, Parliament needs to exercise - Speech Link
2: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) shortages of 100,000 in our health service and 112,000 vacancies in social care.In 2016, the outcome of Exercise - Speech Link
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) We supported Cameroon to carry out a simulation exercise that tested and refined plans to deal with disease - Speech Link


Grand Committee
UK Mortality Rates - Thu 12 Jan 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Sikka (LAB - Life peer) In 2016, the outcome of Exercise Cygnus informed the Government that the NHS would not be able to cope - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Preparing for Extreme Risks (RARPC Report) - Thu 12 Jan 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) My thanks also go to the Cygnus Reports organisation website, run by Moosa Qureshi, an NHS doctor who - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
NHS Workforce - Tue 06 Dec 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Karin Smyth (LAB - Bristol South) Even if we skirt over the suppression of Exercise Cygnus and pandemic planning, we entered the pandemic - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 02 Nov 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) university.As for prohibiting detriment, the amendment would not allow for any circumstance in which the exercise - Speech Link
2: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (CB - Life peer) It clarifies:“The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may - Speech Link
3: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (CB - Life peer) In that sense, balancing will be a necessary exercise, irrespective of whether his amendment is accepted - Speech Link
4: None I would love to be in a world where we quite simply trusted universities to exercise these fine judgments - Speech Link
5: Lord Sikka (LAB - Life peer) One instance related to the suppression of the 2016 study codenamed Operation Cygnus, which documented - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Cost of Living: Public Well-being - Thu 20 Oct 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Sikka (LAB - Life peer) In 2016, Exercise Cygnus concluded that the NHS would struggle to cope with a serious outbreak of flu—an - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Covid-19 and the Courts (Constitution Committee Report) - Wed 23 Mar 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Bolton (LAB - Life peer) the lack of preparedness, we were told that the Government’s simulation of a flu pandemic in 2016, Exercise - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LDEM - Life peer) There was no governmental risk planning; if there was, it was confined to Exercise Cygnus, which of course - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Government Contracts: Randox Laboratories - Mon 21 Feb 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Robertson of Port Ellen (LAB - Life peer) My Lords, the Government held a full-scale exercise in 2016 based on pandemic flu, Operation Cygnus. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Covid-19: Purchasing Effort - Thu 03 Feb 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Barbara Keeley (LAB - Worsley and Eccles South) I remind the Minister that we could have had a stockpile of PPE in this country if Exercise Cygnus in - Speech Link
2: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) Members across the House have regularly said that Exercise Cygnus gave everyone everything they needed - Speech Link
3: Clive Efford (LAB - Eltham) What is absolutely clear from Exercise Cygnus is that the specific recommendations on PPE were not implemented - Speech Link