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Commons Chamber
Prostate Cancer Treatment - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Danny Beales (Lab - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) colleagues, both in the provision of the drug in other nations and the fact that it is now available off-patent - Speech Link
2: Rupa Huq (Lab - Ealing Central and Acton) However, it is now a generic drug—it has gone off patent—but it is licensed only for metastatic cases - Speech Link
3: Karin Smyth (Lab - Bristol South) NICE does not evaluate the off-label uses of medicines, and the drug is also now off-patent and available - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - Fri 16 May 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) seeking assisted dying of any reasonable medical and scientific opinion according to which the lethal drugs - Speech Link
2: Kim Leadbeater (Lab - Spen Valley) That would not be an issue, because copies of the report would be given to the patent, the co-ordinating - Speech Link
3: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) Persistence pays off. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Bool (Con - South Northamptonshire) That is an essential safeguard.Subsection (3) relates to the moment of supplying the lethal drugs. - Speech Link
5: None of time, and I am sure that you, Madam Deputy Speaker, will be clear that I need to start finishing off - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Engineering Biology (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Mon 28 Apr 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) the capability, has recently been awarded £1.4 million from the regulatory innovation fund as a one-off - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys is very concerned about this issue and has set up a committee - Speech Link
3: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) ourselves in—suddenly needing to be far more resilient than we were before, as our major ally veers off - Speech Link
4: Lord Vallance of Balham (Lab - Life peer) must go to the noble Baroness, Lady Brown, for leading this inquiry and report and for starting us off - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th Sitting - Tue 14 Jan 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) If one looks at section 4 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, where possession with intent to supply is - Speech Link
2: Gregory Stafford (Con - Farnham and Bordon) It is essential that we close off all avenues for children to purchase vapes. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Gwynne (LAB - Gorton and Denton) The tobacco industry has often, after having one route closed off to it, sought an alternative route - Speech Link
4: Gregory Stafford (Con - Farnham and Bordon) We would not want a situation like that in America, where specific drugs are promoted to the general - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Science and Technology: Economy - Thu 31 Oct 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Freeman of Steventon (XB - Life peer) getting people fit and active, children being better educated, reducing crime, or testing existing drugs - Speech Link
2: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) than that, but he nevertheless did very well this week and I join those congratulating him on seeing off - Speech Link
3: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (XB - Life peer) That is half the cancer drugs on the WHO’s top 100 list. - Speech Link
4: Lord Rees of Ludlow (XB - Life peer) The difference in pay off between the very best research and the merely good is by any measure hundreds - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) I have shared the clauses with the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys and it concludes the same - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Vaping Products: Usage by Children - Mon 02 Sep 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) vaping first arrived on the scene, we were told that it would be an important support for adults to get off - Speech Link
2: Lord Winston (Lab - Life peer) However, it did not take off—he took out a patent but it did not work—and since then there have been - Speech Link
3: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) investment and research, but we will need a regulatory regime that prevents misuse of these potent drugs - Speech Link
4: Lord Naseby (Con - Life peer) went down that route we would, in my judgment, make good continuing progress on helping smokers to get off - Speech Link
5: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) views, so I am particularly pleased that the current Government are picking up where the last one left off - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Global Health Agencies and Vaccine-Preventable Deaths - Thu 09 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Virendra Sharma (Lab - Ealing, Southall) important, vaccines help to prevent the spread of diseases by supporting the body’s immune system to fight off - Speech Link
2: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) instrument would strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response and regulate the sharing of drugs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Advanced Artificial Intelligence - Mon 24 Jul 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Houghton of Richmond (CB - Life peer) emphasise that the committee, although it has collected a huge amount of evidence, is still some way off - Speech Link
2: Lord Giddens (LAB - Life peer) but it will be very difficult to achieve, given that the pace and scope of innovation has accelerated off - Speech Link
3: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (CB - Life peer) machine learning models, most famously AlphaFold, have a well-known role in the discovery of useful drugs - Speech Link
4: Earl of Devon (CB - Excepted Hereditary) When they reported last June, the Government had no plan to change the UK’s patent law because AI was - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Teesworks: Accountability and Scrutiny - Wed 07 Jun 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lisa Nandy (LAB - Wigan) began to collate over 4,500 acres of industrial land, including the site of the former steelworks, off - Speech Link
2: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) The Comptroller and Auditor General has letters patent from the King and reports to this House, not to - Speech Link
3: Jill Mortimer (CON - Hartlepool) Hats off to him: he performed verbal gymnastic feats of which Olga Korbut would have been proud. - Speech Link
4: Simon Clarke (CON - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) They abuse this place to make allegations, rely on others to amplify them outside and then feed off the - Speech Link
5: Ian Lavery (LAB - Wansbeck) People need to back off and treat this issue extremely seriously. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Dec 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) , novelty is a condition of acquiring a patent. - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) nor does it alter the process by which an applicant would apply for patent protections. - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) nor does it alter the process by which an applicant would apply for patent protections. - Speech Link
4: Lord Winston (LAB - Life peer) Does the patent there still stand or not? - Speech Link