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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
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

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: Andy McDonald (LAB - Middlesbrough) on site, who has been given a prison sentence of 11 years and eight months for his part in running a drugs - 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: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) Indeed, many recent gene-editing studies on animals have reported no incidences of off-target changes - Speech Link
2: Lord Trees (CB - Life peer) controlling disease, we know that, if you can control enteric worms in ruminants—for example, sheep—with drugs - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) , novelty is a condition of acquiring a patent. - Speech Link
4: Lord Winston (LAB - Life peer) Does the patent there still stand or not? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
World AIDS Day - Thu 01 Dec 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) That happens when somebody is already having their blood taken in A&E and the vial is sent off for - Speech Link
2: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) He has also touched on the discussion about patents and patent waivers. - Speech Link
3: Neil O'Brien (CON - Harborough) He raised a number of other points, including the important issue about patent waivers. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 21 Nov 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Winston (LAB - Life peer) It is well-known, as I am sure the Minister knows, that you occasionally get off-target mutations, which - Speech Link
2: Lord Trees (CB - Life peer) Procedures) Act 1986, world-class legislation which protects animals during the research and development of drugs - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) The patent system exists to encourage inventions by offering time-limited exclusive rights in exchange - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
NHS Prescriptions (Drug Tariff Labelling)
1st reading - Tue 25 Oct 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Craig Mackinlay (CON - South Thanet) out of an overall cost of £8.7 billion.The bulk of prescription charges comes from those paying for off-patent - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Negotiating Objectives for a Free Trade Agreement with India - Tue 06 Sep 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Earl of Sandwich (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Nevertheless, India’s generic drugs play an essential role in our health service. - Speech Link
2: Lord Harries of Pentregarth (CB - Life peer) Consequently, when Dalits resist their oppression they risk complete boycott, cutting them off from land - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) The Italian Government blocked oil drilling from 12 miles off their shores. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Our approach considers industry, which relies on the period of exclusivity provided by patent protection - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Global Vaccine Disparities - Wed 13 Jul 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) These are the most lucrative drugs in history, and more than one Moderna executive has become a billionaire - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) It is a disgrace that we actually sought to prevent others from making the drugs that they needed.Many - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 28 Jun 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) We started off this, which may be considered by some to be a slight mission of madness, but I had the - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) One man started with one aeroplane, and off he went; brilliant, great, good for him. - Speech Link
3: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) You cannot patent discoveries of genes; you have to patent an invention. - Speech Link
4: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) companies owning most of the seeds, but I do not hear the same about a few companies owning most of the drugs - Speech Link
5: Clive Lewis (LAB - Norwich South) part of the global south is campaigning to have access to the understanding of how to make anti-covid drugs - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Second sitting) - Tue 28 Jun 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) We started off this, which may be considered by some to be a slight mission of madness, but I had the - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) One man started with one aeroplane, and off he went; brilliant, great, good for him. - Speech Link
3: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) You cannot patent discoveries of genes; you have to patent an invention. - Speech Link
4: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) companies owning most of the seeds, but I do not hear the same about a few companies owning most of the drugs - Speech Link
5: Clive Lewis (LAB - Norwich South) part of the global south is campaigning to have access to the understanding of how to make anti-covid drugs - Speech Link