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Mike Wood Excerpts
Tuesday 25th January 2022

(2 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Amanda Milling Portrait The Minister for Asia (Amanda Milling)
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Throughout the pandemic our top priority has been to save lives. We firmly believe that the best way to do so is to support the world’s leading scientists. There is no evidence that the intellectual property rights waiver would help to save lives. The TRIPS—trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights—waiver proposal would dismantle the international IP framework that helped to produce the vaccines at an unprecedented pace.

Mike Wood Portrait Mike Wood (Dudley South) (Con)
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T4. [R] People in Dudley South and across Britain with vivid memories of the famines that followed civil war in Ethiopia in the 1980s will look with horror at recent reports from that country. What update can my hon. Friend the Minister give on the situation in Ethiopia and the prospects for a lasting peace?