Mentions:
1: Christian Wakeford (Lab - Bury South) that thinking of the further after-effects of one of the biggest scandals in the health service since thalidomide - Speech Link
2: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) The battle is in many ways a repetition of the thalidomide debate…The result is decaying confidence in - Speech Link
3: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) I have seen other healthcare scandals in this country rightly receive recognition and redress, from thalidomide - Speech Link
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1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) “Safe and effective” was the sale slogan of thalidomide. - Speech Link
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1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) For posterity, we must remember that it was 11 years after the thalidomide scandal was exposed in 1961 - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) we will see much the same, following the roll-out of the covid-19 vaccines, as we saw with Vioxx and thalidomide - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) It took 11 years after the drug was withdrawn in 1961 for the thalidomide scandal to be first raised - Speech Link
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1: Allan Dorans (SNP - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) I had heard of thalidomide, as it received far greater coverage in the media at the time. - Speech Link
2: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) We have seen it with Hillsborough, the infected blood scandal and even with thalidomide. - Speech Link
3: Anna Firth (CON - Southend West) It happened in the case of thalidomide, for which the Department paid around £80 million over 10 years - Speech Link
4: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) Thalidomide campaigners were able to settle with the company. - Speech Link
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1: Andrew Bridgen (TRP - North West Leicestershire) In 1958, 65 years ago, thalidomide was first marketed in the UK. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None There are many examples from recent history—Primodos, Thalidomide and others—which point to the need - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Crispin Blunt (CON - Reigate) historical context that led to the irrationality of the position we are in, which of course was the thalidomide - Speech Link
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1: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) inquiry into the use of sodium valproate, which The Sunday Times has described as a scandal bigger than thalidomide - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Hamwee (LDEM - Life peer) We have not been dismissive of it.I thought that the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, might refer to the thalidomide - Speech Link