Ruth Cadbury
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(7 years, 2 months ago)
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Mr Speaker
Order. May we please have two short, one-sentence questions? That is what topical questions is supposed to be about.
Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth) (Lab)
Will the Justice Secretary have it in her heart to look into the case of Charlie Gard, a very sick eight-month old baby boy with a rare mitochondrial depletion condition who is legally unable to leave Great Ormond Street hospital to receive treatment in the US that might just save his life? His family are constituents of mine and my hon. Friend the Member for Feltham and Heston (Seema Malhotra), and they have raised £1.25 million to get Charlie to the United States. This is a complex legal case, but if the Justice Secretary has any powers to intervene I plead with her to do the right thing.
Mr Speaker
I will say in the hon. Lady’s defence that there were probably a number of semi-colons in there, but I accept that this is a very important matter.