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Commons Chamber
Heart and Circulatory Diseases: Premature Deaths - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Dean Russell (Con - Watford) treatment.As many Members will know, I campaigned vigorously with West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Philip Davies (Con - Shipley) Otherwise, we will do harm to people, and we will do even more and irreparable damage to trust in public - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Excess Death Trends - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

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1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) It took 11 years after the drug was withdrawn in 1961 for the thalidomide scandal to be first raised - Speech Link
2: Derek Thomas (Con - St Ives) I have received a significant number of emails, and the consistent theme is a lack of trust. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hormone Pregnancy Tests - Thu 07 Sep 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Allan Dorans (SNP - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) Nan put her utmost trust in the knowledge, experience and expertise of her GP. - 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: Mike Penning (CON - Hemel Hempstead) The public need to trust the NHS. - Speech Link
4: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) Thalidomide campaigners were able to settle with the company. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 07 Sep 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Ian Mearns (LAB - Gateshead) of the governors of a maintained primary school and a member of the board of trustees of an academy trust - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bridgen (TRP - North West Leicestershire) In 1958, 65 years ago, thalidomide was first marketed in the UK. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage - Thu 11 May 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None The trust between our clinical professionals and their patients relies on a shared commitment to evidence-based - Speech Link
2: None There are many examples from recent history—Primodos, Thalidomide and others—which point to the need - Speech Link
3: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (CON - Life peer) In case of things such as romance scams or investment scams, people’s trust is severely undermined in - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kidron (CB - Life peer) own, they are experiencing what the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, expressed as embarrassment, loss of trust - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder: Fatalities - Wed 07 Dec 2022
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) which has worked alongside families and campaigners, such as the Independent Fetal Anti-Convulsant Trust - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Technology Rules: The Advent of New Technologies in the Justice System (Justice and Home Affairs Committee Report) - Mon 28 Nov 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Primarolo (LAB - Life peer) If not addressed, they will undermine the same confidence, trust and respect, and, if inadvertently and - Speech Link
2: Lord Hope of Craighead (CB - Life peer) That begs the question whether and how that can be done, and how far we can trust algorithms that are - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) report, but the Government are committed to the spirit of improving consistency, maintaining public trust - Speech Link
4: 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


Westminster Hall
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Covid-19 - Tue 06 Sep 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Wright (CON - Kenilworth and Southam) There are domestic precedents we can follow—for example, the Thalidomide Trust. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Women’s Health Strategy for England - Thu 21 Jul 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) I declare an interest as a maternity safeguarding champion at a London trust hospital.We must welcome - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Public Order Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Thu 09 Jun 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) If we want to go into the details of the great Sunday Times investigation campaign on thalidomide, I - Speech Link
2: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) it.I want to ask about suspicionless stop and search—no one has said anything about it—which corrodes trust - Speech Link