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Westminster Hall
Brexit Deal: Referendum - Mon 11 Dec 2017
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Geraint Davies (LAB - Swansea West) So if someone is making thalidomide or something similar they could say, ‘Look, we have had these five - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 22 Nov 2017
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Theresa May (CON - Maidenhead) of the expert working group were attended by Nick Dobrik, as an invited independent expert from the Thalidomide - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hormone Pregnancy Tests - Thu 16 Nov 2017
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Steve Brine (CON - Winchester) an expert, Nick Dobrik, who the House and outside world will know well as a respected and well-known thalidomide - Speech Link
2: Paul Flynn (LAB - Newport West) The report must be judged against the background of the fact that the thalidomide scandal involved only - Speech Link
3: Steve Brine (CON - Winchester) Gentleman that information at the Dispatch Box, but he mentions the thalidomide tragedy and I have already - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Hormone Pregnancy Tests - Thu 16 Nov 2017
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord O'Shaughnessy (CON - Life peer) expert working group of scientists and included an independent member in Nick Dobrik, who is a noted thalidomide - Speech Link
2: Lord O'Shaughnessy (CON - Life peer) There was an independent member in Nick Dobrik, the thalidomide campaigner, and Mrs Lyon, who chairs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Valproate and Foetal Anticonvulsant Syndrome - Thu 19 Oct 2017
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Norman Lamb (LDEM - North Norfolk) There are many similarities to the thalidomide scandal. - Speech Link
2: Norman Lamb (LDEM - North Norfolk) If it is right for thalidomide victims, it is right for those who have lost out severely as a result - Speech Link
3: Teresa Pearce (LAB - Erith and Thamesmead) more shocking that it was decided to keep this information from women in 1973-74, in the wake of the thalidomide - Speech Link
4: Paul Flynn (LAB - Newport West) has been made—not by the mothers, but by the system.It is helpful to look back at what happened with thalidomide - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Surgical Mesh Implants - Wed 18 Oct 2017
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Alec Shelbrooke (CON - Elmet and Rothwell) I did a lot of work on the thalidomide campaign and I thought this was the next thalidomide scandal. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Contaminated Blood - Tue 11 Jul 2017
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Jo Stevens (LAB - Cardiff Central) Friend agree that we should learn from the lessons of the thalidomide inquiry and compensation fund to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 28 Jun 2017
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (LAB - Life peer) and other drugs and medicines reach high standards so that we do not have repeats of disasters like thalidomide - Speech Link


General Committees
EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement - Mon 06 Feb 2017
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Geraint Davies (LAB - Swansea West) For example, if a company such as the one that manufactured thalidomide found that half the trials for - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Contaminated Blood and Blood Products - Thu 24 Nov 2016
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Is there not an analogy—an off-the-shelf scheme we could consider—in how the thalidomide victims were - Speech Link
2: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) Of course, the thalidomide compensation was based on a clear line of accountability as the company admitted - Speech Link