Pandemic Preparedness Debate

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Baroness Chakrabarti

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Pandemic Preparedness

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Victims and Prisoners Bill
Monday 15th April 2024

(8 months, 2 weeks ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Chakrabarti Portrait Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab)
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My Lords, why did we block the TRIPS waiver?

Lord True Portrait The Lord Privy Seal (Lord True) (Con)
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The noble Baroness knows better than to shout at another Member when other Members before her are also trying to get in to ask a question.

Lord Markham Portrait Lord Markham (Con)
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That is all a part of what I referred to as having a toolkit for a flexible response. The problem always in these things is that you tend to fight the next war on what happened in the last one. We have to be careful in what we do and that we are not trying to fight the next pandemic on the last one, because inevitably it will be different. Having a flexible and scalable response, including communications, is vital.

Baroness Chakrabarti Portrait Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab)
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My Lords, the Minister says that we have a—

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