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Westminster Hall
Hughes Report: Second Anniversary - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab - Aylesbury) My constituent was prescribed sodium valproate during pregnancy. - Speech Link
2: Shockat Adam (Ind - Leicester South) However, it has always been known to cause serious harm when taken during pregnancy, and the risks are - Speech Link
3: Lizzi Collinge (Lab - Morecambe and Lunesdale) Her children were profoundly harmed by exposure during pregnancy. - Speech Link
4: Lizzi Collinge (Lab - Morecambe and Lunesdale) We know that things go wrong in medicine, and that all drugs have side effects, but when a harm that - Speech Link
5: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) She believes that the sodium valproate medication that she took during his pregnancy was responsible - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Committee stage - Fri 06 Feb 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None far during the Bill’s progress through your Lordships’ House: inability to access palliative care, pregnancy - Speech Link
2: Baroness Berger (Lab - Life peer) We also know that adverse complications can arise from the drugs people ingest through an assisted death - Speech Link
3: None person is likely to die within a month and 48 hours after the panel approval, they can be given lethal drugs - Speech Link
4: Viscount Colville of Culross (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Each medical professional who visited him offered the option of MAID, alongside the option of drugs to - Speech Link
5: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) This deals with the position at the moment of providing the assistance—that is, when the drugs are provided - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Lord Mandelson - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Natalie Fleet (Lab - Bolsover) when they were being trafficked in the most horrendous way, my community had the highest teenage pregnancy - Speech Link
2: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Stamford) hours, being asked about my every sexual proclivity, when I lost my virginity, and whether I had taken drugs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Mon 02 Feb 2026
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: None It increases the opportunities for coercion of women in late-term pregnancy. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sugg (Con - Life peer) Those are the jurisdictions which never prosecute a woman for ending her own pregnancy. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) Accordingly, any third party, including registered medical practitioners, who terminates a pregnancy - Speech Link
4: None In addition, abortifacient drugs are not defined in the amendment. - Speech Link
5: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) As we all know, at 39 weeks’ gestation, a pregnancy has reached full term. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 02 Feb 2026
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Patel (XB - Life peer) It happens at all periods of pregnancy. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hazarika (Lab - Life peer) using illegal drugs. - Speech Link
3: None is not a suitable or safe medical intervention in later pregnancy. - Speech Link
4: None If the body is not contracting, drugs are administered. - Speech Link
5: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) Doctors administer these drugs. Doctors look after us in childbirth. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Domestic Abuse-related Deaths: NHS Prevention - Tue 20 Jan 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Simon Opher (Lab - Stroud) There are often drugs, alcohol or mental health issues behind their problems, so we must deal with that - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) domestic abuse issue is clearly in the middle of that.Roughly 30% of domestic abuse starts during pregnancy - Speech Link
3: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds Central and Headingley) Fawziyah died, she was 17 weeks pregnant with her baby boy.Fawziyah had contact with the NHS during her pregnancy - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Official Development Assistance - Tue 13 Jan 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) Reducing funding for maternity care is leading to more women dying in childbirth and pregnancy. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) organisms to marshal and develop their forces against us by developing and spreading resistance to the drugs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) know that e-scooters are heavily used in the theft of goods and telephones and the supply of illegal drugs - Speech Link
2: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) e-cycles by drug dealers and others, who wear the stolen uniforms of respectable companies to deliver drugs - Speech Link
3: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) vulnerability due to age, sickness or infirmity due to a psychological or physical disability or to pregnancy - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Transgender People: Provision of Healthcare - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) situation where they are exposed.Children whose puberty is advancing too quickly can access these drugs - Speech Link
2: John Slinger (Lab - Rugby) Just imagine if we suggested taking drugs away that treated a conventional medical issue. - Speech Link
3: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) Drugs are, unusually, being given to children with physically healthy bodies. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Committee stage - Fri 12 Dec 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None account when the drugs are being prescribed. - Speech Link
2: None Very briefly, on the drugs, my noble friend Lady Hollins has co-authored a paper on the drugs to be used - Speech Link
3: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) Pregnancy causes drugs to be processed differently. - Speech Link
4: Lord Winston (Lab - Life peer) Both early in pregnancy and in late pregnancy, this would be a real risk. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) and the pregnancy test. - Speech Link