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Commons Chamber
Covid-19: Response and Excess Deaths - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) “Safe and effective” was the sale slogan of thalidomide. - Speech Link

Scottish Cross Party Group Publication (Minutes)
Source Page: Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Medicinal Cannabis
Document: Medicinal Cannabis CPG Minutes_27th April 2022 (PDF)

Found: For example: thalidomide was given to children in the 1960’s, and Chris W hitty is scared of that .

Select Committee
2024-03-19 16:15:00+00:00

Oral Evidence Mar. 19 2024

Inquiry: Proposals for backbench debates
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Backbench Business Committee

Found: In fact, it is not even possible to prove a causal link because, as with thalidomide, you would have

Scottish Government Publication (FOI/EIR release)
Chief Medical Officer Directorate

Dec. 11 2023

Source Page: Correspondence regarding review and update of gender reassignment protocol: FOI release
Document: FOI 202300372782 - Information Released - Attachments A to H (PDF)

Found: exploration and minimising intervention - will go down as a medical scandal as bad as lobotomy or thalidomide

Select Committee
The National Organisation for FASD
 PHS0622 - Prevention in health and social care

Written Evidence Mar. 05 2024

Inquiry: Prevention in health and social care
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)

Found: Alcohol is a teratogen, like thalidomide, and the fetus cannot defend itself. 12.According to SIGN

Commons Chamber
Women’s State Pension Age: Ombudsman Report - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: George Howarth (Lab - Knowsley) In my time in the House, they have included the thalidomide victims, Hillsborough, Primodos, contaminated - Speech Link

Written Question
Thalidomide
Thursday 1st December 2022

Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he plans to continue the Thalidomide Health Grant after 31 March 2023; and how much has been awarded to date.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

In March 2021, the Government committed to continue the Thalidomide Health Grant beyond 31 March 2023, when the current Grant concludes. This includes an initial payment of approximately £39 million for the first four years after the current Grant ends. The following table shows awards through the Thalidomide Health Grant in each year since 2013/14.

Grant Year

Financial year

Value

Year 1

2013/14

£7,300,000

Year 2

2014/15

£7,456,220

Year 3

2015/16

£7,560,607

Year 4

2016/17

£7,673,400

Year 5

2017/18

£6,711,163

Year 6

2018/19

£8,366,832

Year 7

2019/20

£8,481,247

Year 8

2020/21

£8,298,163

Year 9

2021/22

£8,658,131

Year 10

2022/23

£9,080,334

Total

£79,586,097

Commons Chamber
Proscribed Psychedelic Drugs - Tue 14 Mar 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Crispin Blunt (CON - Reigate) historical context that led to the irrationality of the position we are in, which of course was the thalidomide - Speech Link

Select Committee
Meeting note following a workshop held on 22 November 2022 hosted by the Alan Turing Institute AI Programme to discuss the findings and recommendations from the new technologies in the justice system report by the Justice and Home Affairs Committee:

Minutes and decisions Mar. 27 2023

Committee: Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Found: Reference was made to the Thalidomide drug scandal in the 1950s an d 1960s which resulted in changes

Parliamentary Research
Human stem cell-based embryo models - POST-PN-0716
Feb. 29 2024

Found: Thalidomide promotes degradation of SALL4, a transcription factor implic ated in Duane Radial Ray