"I would like to update the House regarding the follow-up negotiations to the pandemic agreement to develop and agree a new pathogen access and benefit sharing (PABS) system in the form of an annex to the agreement.
The PABS system will be a new, voluntary system for life sciences companies …..." Zubir Ahmed - View Speech
"I would like to acknowledge today the publication of the updated eighth report on “Learning from lives and deaths—People with a learning disability and autistic people” (LeDeR) produced by King’s College London. This replaces a previous version of the report which was retracted in December 2025 due to a technical …..." Zubir Ahmed - View Speech
That the Committee has considered the draft Medical Devices (Fees Amendment) Regulations 2026.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Jardine. I am grateful for the opportunity to open the debate on these regulations, which were laid before Parliament on 16 December 2025 …..." Zubir Ahmed - View Speech
"The anticipation would be that post-market surveillance will continue if devices are still used in a clinical setting.
PMS supports UK attractiveness by strengthening confidence in the market for patients, clinicians and investors, and by resourcing a more risk-proportionate, innovation-friendly approach to regulation, including making better use of real-world evidence …..." Zubir Ahmed - View Speech
"I am happy to write to the hon. Lady to give her a fuller answer. She knows that procurement in different parts of the NHS rightly reflects local clinical practices, although there are overarching national frameworks for buying such products. Innovation lends itself to the fact that, over time, patients …..." Zubir Ahmed - View Speech
"I turn first to the Opposition spokesperson, the hon. Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham. Like me, she is a scholar of medicine, and she practiced in the NHS throughout all 14 years of the last Government. She will know, possibly at first hand, that the MHRA as a regulatory …..." Zubir Ahmed - View Speech
"As the hon. Lady knows, doctors are able, in certain circumstances, to prescribe unlicensed treatments to their patients if they feel it is a proportionate act to take. It is not something that is in guidelines or routinely recommended, but is at times at the discretion of individual clinicians. Clearly, …..." Zubir Ahmed - View Speech
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Vaz. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Sefton Central (Bill Esterson) for securing what is, by all acknowledgement, an important debate on ADHD. I thank other hon. Members for their valuable contributions today, particularly my hon. Friends the …..." Zubir Ahmed - View Speech
"At present, the hon. Gentleman will have to ask my colleague the mental health Minister about the specifics, but my understanding is that the prevalence review will be a wider piece of work that will be partly informed by the ADHD taskforce report. It would be better to respond to …..." Zubir Ahmed - View Speech
"I have met the chair of the taskforce: we discussed the outcomes, and the need—as the hon. Member mentioned in his remarks—for work on those outcomes to dovetail with the prevalence review. I think that would be the most appropriate way to provide a holistic response. We, of course, respect …..." Zubir Ahmed - View Speech