Written Question
Monday 28th February 2022
Asked by:
Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the cost of each quality-adjusted life year added to 5 to 11 year old children as a result of offering that cohort a covid-19 vaccination.
Answered by Maggie Throup
On 22 December 2021, the Government accepted the advice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to children aged five to 11 years old who are in a clinical risk group, or who are household contacts of the immunosuppressed. On 16 February 2022, the Government subsequently accepted the JCVI’s advice to offer vaccination of children aged five to 11 years old not in a clinical risk group. However, the size and characteristics of a potential future wave were uncertain at the time of the JCVI’s advice, therefore it was not possible to determine the cost per quality adjusted life years gained.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Feb 2022
Cumberlege Report
"Order. I am terribly sorry to interrupt the right hon. Lady, but we cannot have interventions during what should be a very brief winding-up speech...."Lord Brady of Altrincham - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 3rd February 2022
Asked by:
Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 6 September 2021 to Question 38143 on Coronavirus: Research, what his timetable is for publication of the research funded by the National Institute for Health Research.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
Four of the eight projects have published at least one paper on their findings. We anticipate papers from the remaining four studies although we do not have a confirmed timetable for their publication.
Written Question
Thursday 20th January 2022
Asked by:
Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the relative benefits of administering covid-19 vaccinations via aspiration compared to intravenous injection.
Answered by Maggie Throup
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has not made this assessment. The UKHSA provides guidance on immunisation techniques in Chapter Four of the Green Book, which follows available evidence and international recommendations for the administration of vaccines. This is reviewed and updated regularly by the UKHSA and states that it is not necessary to aspirate the syringe after the needle is introduced into the muscle because there are no large blood vessels at the recommended injection sites.
In addition, the only licensed route of administration for COVID-19 vaccines is via intra-muscular injection into the preferred site, the deltoid muscle. No assessment has therefore been made for intravenous injection. Vaccinations are not administered into the vein as this would be potentially harmful.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Dec 2021
Covid-19 Update
"It’s déjà vu all over again, isn’t it? I remind the Secretary of State that in March 2020 we were asked to impose restrictions for three weeks while the health service capacity was increased. Can he tell the House how much that capacity has now been increased? Secondly, in moving …..."Lord Brady of Altrincham - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Dec 2021
Covid-19 Update
"The travel sector has been devastated by uncertainty and constantly changing rules. I welcome the Secretary of State’s saying that that these measures are temporary, but will he set out in detail the criteria on which he will decide whether they should be lifted and when?..."Lord Brady of Altrincham - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Public Health
"I shall be brief, but I have a number of concerns about the regulations, the first of which is about the manner in which they have been introduced. I am glad that the hon. Member for Nottingham North (Alex Norris) made this point in opening his remarks. Why on earth …..."Lord Brady of Altrincham - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Public Health
"Absolutely. As a former Chief Whip, my right hon. Friend knows very well that there is always parliamentary time available when the Government want to do something; it is only when they are reluctant to do something that parliamentary time becomes elusive.
There is a further question as to why …..."Lord Brady of Altrincham - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Public Health
"I am grateful to my medically qualified right hon. Friend for that intervention. He is of course right that that is unlikely. There would have to be some evidence of a very different kind of variant of covid for it to pose any kind of threat of that sort. He …..."Lord Brady of Altrincham - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Public Health
"My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is a very serious concern that we might be entering a world where we lurch from one set of restrictions to another, where no business and no individual can get used to the idea of the freedoms they are able to exercise …..."Lord Brady of Altrincham - View Speech
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