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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: Cat Smith (LAB - Lancaster and Fleetwood) Gentleman aware of research done by the Independent Fetal Anti Convulsant Trust—In-FACT—which found that - Speech Link
3: 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
4: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) Together, they founded the Independent Fetal Anti Convulsant Trust, a registered charity, to campaign - Speech Link
5: Paul Flynn (LAB - Newport West) The real difference was that the regulatory body in the United States would not accept thalidomide in - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Emma Hardy (LAB - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) some of the problems with rectopexy, which is a form of rectal mesh, and the investigation a local trust - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Sharon Hodgson (LAB - Washington and Sunderland West) That should be a matter of urgency for the Minister and the Government, and I trust she will respond - Speech Link
4: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) Concerned patients may contact the GMC, just as they would do in an NHS trust. - 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
2: Nadhim Zahawi (CON - Stratford-on-Avon) The trust refuses to discuss the future of the charge on her property. - Speech Link
3: Esther McVey (CON - Tatton) Trust is the key word—trust and faith, if people have that, in the inquiry. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (LAB - Life peer) The Wellcome Trust, pointing out that science is a driver of economic growth, stresses the importance - Speech Link
2: Lord Sentamu (CB - Life peer) Numbers started to rise last year, and research published by the Joseph Rowntree Trust projects that - Speech Link
3: 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: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) I trust that we will have a chance to debate those issues. - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Nadhim Zahawi (CON - Stratford-on-Avon) Her issue has involved the Macfarlane Trust and she is not alone in feeling that the trust is not fit - Speech Link
4: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (CON - Life peer) Over £41 million has been paid out by the trust to date. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hormone Pregnancy Tests - Thu 13 Oct 2016
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Yasmin Qureshi (LAB - Bolton South East) Committee on Safety of Medicines; further calls on the Government to ensure that the inquiry has the trust - Speech Link
2: Yasmin Qureshi (LAB - Bolton South East) Committee on Safety of Medicines; further calls on the Government to ensure that the inquiry has the trust - Speech Link
3: Yvonne Fovargue (LAB - Makerfield) I have the highest concentration of constituents affected by thalidomide and the highest concentration - Speech Link
4: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) Dubbed the forgotten thalidomide, Primodos was a drug given to women in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s to establish - Speech Link
5: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) From Thalidomide to Primodos and vaccine damage, there are some common themes: a lack of warnings about - Speech Link
6: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) establish the facts and explain to the country how this could have happened just a short while after the Thalidomide - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
BBC Charter Review (Communications Committee Report) - Thu 21 Apr 2016
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Puttnam (LAB - Life peer) has often been hard to tell who has been in charge—the executive or the trust. - Speech Link
2: Viscount Colville of Culross (CB - Excepted Hereditary) The trust has nowhere near such editorial influence. - Speech Link
3: Lord Williams of Baglan (CB - Life peer) Noble Lords might ask why I joined the BBC Trust. - Speech Link
4: Lord Young of Norwood Green (LAB - Life peer) One episode of “Call the Midwife” dealt with thalidomide, which, for many people, is an issue that has - Speech Link
5: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) As has been noted, all members of the executive board are appointed by the BBC Trust itself. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Contaminated Blood - Tue 12 Apr 2016
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (LAB - Kingston upon Hull North) That is in marked contrast to the response to other medical and treatment disasters, such as thalidomide - Speech Link
2: Jim Cunningham (LAB - Coventry South) She mentioned thalidomide, but that took many years to address and it took a determined Minister to introduce - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Djanogly (CON - Huntingdon) Because his father died in 1986, before the trust was set up, his mother never received any money at - Speech Link
4: Diana Johnson (LAB - Kingston upon Hull North) model, may I seek reassurance from the Minister that she will scrap trust structures in England, Wales - Speech Link
5: Eleanor Laing (CON - Epping Forest) The debate is not contentious, on one side of the House or the other, so I trust that Members will be - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 06 Jan 2016
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Nadhim Zahawi (CON - Stratford-on-Avon) rose— There are special events at the Royal Shakespeare Company; the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is - Speech Link
2: Simon Hoare (CON - North Dorset) Friend knows that the legacy of thalidomide still hangs over more than 500 people in our country today - Speech Link
3: David Cameron (CON - Witney) In the last Parliament, I met some of my own constituents who had been affected by thalidomide. - Speech Link