Mentions:
1: Baroness Cumberlege (CON - Life peer) Thalidomide did not lead to an avalanche of other groups requiring help. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Walmsley (LDEM - Life peer) I trust Parliament, and I do not think it should be—as the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, pointed - Speech Link
Feb. 04 2022
Source Page: Decision makers’ guide: Vol 12: Pensions: staff guideFound: Enterprise Council TFEU Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union TS Tribunals Service TT Thalidomide
Dec. 15 2021
Source Page: UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2016 inquiry - UK 2021 follow-up report. 26p.Found: Thalidomide health grant 63.
Mentions:
1: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) I will work hard, as will the service, to rebuild that trust. - Speech Link
2: Martin, Gillian (SNP - Aberdeenshire East) We have heard that there is still a long way to go to rebuild faith and trust between NHS Scotland and - Speech Link
3: McMillan, Stuart (SNP - Greenock and Inverclyde) Added to that is the loss of trust in our NHS, as referenced throughout the report. - Speech Link
4: Whitfield, Martin (Lab - South Scotland) Those are the very women we are asking to trust our NHS again. - Speech Link
5: Carlaw, Jackson (Con - Eastwood) Had it been—as I observed in an earlier debate—similar to the thalidomide scandal, in which the injuries - Speech Link
Written Evidence Nov. 02 2021
Inquiry: NHS litigation reformFound: NLR0006 - NHS litigation reform Independent Fetal Anti-Convulsant Trust Written Evidence
Mentions:
1: Jeff Smith (LAB - Manchester, Withington) , the clinical commissioning group or sometimes NHS England, although it is usually the trust. - Speech Link
2: Mary Glindon (LAB - North Tyneside) That is because unfortunately the Northumbria trust—it is a well-respected and well-known trust in many - Speech Link
3: Maria Caulfield (CON - Lewes) have a good clinical effect is not tested thoroughly, there can be grave consequences, just as with thalidomide - Speech Link
Dec. 09 2021
Source Page: Disabled people’s rights: the UK’s 2021 report on select recommendations from the UNCRPD periodic reviewFound: The Thalidomide health grant began in 2012. £80 million was pledged over 10 years, in recognition of
Dec. 09 2021
Source Page: Disabled people’s rights: the UK’s 2021 report on select recommendations from the UNCRPD periodic reviewFound: The Thalidomide health grant began in 2012. £80 million was pledged over 10 years, in recognition of
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, when discussions with the Thalidomide Trust on support for ongoing health needs beyond 2022-23 will conclude.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
On 3 March 2021, we committed to continue the Thalidomide Health Grant beyond 31 March 2023. This commitment includes an initial payment of approximately £39 million for the first four years after the current grant ends. Future funding figures will be confirmed every four years following an assessment of need.
Mentions:
1: George Freeman (CON - Mid Norfolk) reliance, it is important that that activity is carried out to the highest standards and that public trust - Speech Link
2: George Freeman (CON - Mid Norfolk) technology to try to remove dependence on animals in the development of medicines and of carrying public trust - Speech Link
3: Grahame Morris (LAB - Easington) An example of a drug that went through extensive animal testing through the established processes is thalidomide - Speech Link
4: George Freeman (CON - Mid Norfolk) That is important, primarily for animal welfare and trust in research, but also because moving away from - Speech Link