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Commons Chamber
Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill
2nd reading - Tue 23 Mar 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) As he says,“World-leading research cannot just be turned off like a tap. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) the need to fund projects that can provide immediate results and benefits such as pancreatic cancer drugs - Speech Link
3: John Redwood (CON - Wokingham) America can do better, at where America needs to fill in gaps in her knowledge and understanding of patent - Speech Link
4: Rob Roberts (IND - Delyn) So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. - Speech Link
5: Imran Ahmad Khan (IND - Wakefield) Projects may well fail, and funding may be turned off, but that should be expected. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
Report stage - Tue 12 Jan 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) I want to tackle them head on and perhaps, I hope, persuade the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey, to back off - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) A story came out this morning about the fertility of male porpoises living off the UK being affected - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sheehan (LDEM - Life peer) made the production of more affordable drugs possible. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Walmsley (LDEM - Life peer) Many countries, such as Germany, Hungary, Canada and Australia, have made alterations to their patent - Speech Link
5: None These drugs are used off-label. This is a well-used way of prescribing in the NHS. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement - Fri 08 Jan 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bassam of Brighton (LAB - Life peer) Can the Minister confirm the status of patent and trademark attorneys, for example, as these are not - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LDEM - Life peer) My Lords, first, I thank the team of the noble Lord, Lord Callanan, for engaging with me on the patent - Speech Link
3: Lord Patel (CB - Life peer) the mutual recognition of quality standards for medicines will allow for the unhindered movement of drugs - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) I voted against it, because it leaves the British people much worse off. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Supplementary Protection Certificates (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 - Thu 19 Nov 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Amanda Solloway (CON - Derby North) investor in research and development in the UK, investing more than £4.5 billion in 2018.Developing new drugs - Speech Link
2: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) If drugs are available under different rules, in different circumstances or with the different extent - Speech Link
3: Amanda Solloway (CON - Derby North) AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline—but smaller enterprises such as research universities and their spin-off - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Covid-19 Response: Innovation and Access to Treatment - Thu 05 Nov 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) Government could take is to work through international institutions to help encourage reform of the patent - Speech Link
2: Navendu Mishra (LAB - Stockport) shortages of life-saving covid products and medicines.This will help to offset the failure of the current patent - Speech Link
3: Wendy Morton (CON - Aldridge-Brownhills) I will cover that point off later, if I may, but I make clear that we have made commitments to the ACT - Speech Link
4: Wendy Morton (CON - Aldridge-Brownhills) the sharing of IP—for example, expanding the mandate of existing organisations such as the Medicines Patent - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Wed 28 Oct 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord German (LDEM - Life peer) I understand that it is with Ministers for final sign-off, but it has been agreed. - Speech Link
2: None To explain further, if a company has a product that is subject to a patent, it can therefore be made - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) I am not trying to catch him off guard. - Speech Link
4: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (LAB - Life peer) I understand, but only from the Explanatory Notes, that the supplying of drugs by the NHS, even though - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 3rd sitting (Hansard) - Wed 28 Oct 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Patel (CB - Life peer) It is a pleasure to resume where the Committee left off last Monday. - Speech Link
2: None these mechanisms, for example, expanding the mandate of an existing organisation, such as the Medicines Patent - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Mon 26 Oct 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) He started off by saying that there should not be a trade-off but I think that he might have come to - Speech Link
2: None Demanding to extend a patent for turning a powder into a pill is deplorably unethical. - Speech Link
3: None companies are trying to “rip off taxpayers”. - Speech Link
4: None second part of Amendment 19 was drafted in response to the fact that pharmaceutical companies’ national patent - Speech Link
5: None The Government have the power to use Crown licences to prevent patent monopolies impeding access to medicine - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Trade Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Thu 01 Oct 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Grantchester (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) Trade agreements could promote the import of cheap higher-carbon goods, effectively off- shoring the - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sheehan (LDEM - Life peer) pharmaceutical companies are trying to, in his words, “rip off taxpayers”, and that big business must - Speech Link
3: None Patent linkage describes a system in which drug regulatory authorities—for example, the Medicines and - Speech Link
4: None Accepting it is a way of gaining the confidence of the country that such agreements are not selling off - Speech Link
5: Lord Judd (LAB - Life peer) a training course for medical personnel of all kinds, doctors, nurses and so on, who would be going off - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Science Research Funding in Universities (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Wed 09 Sep 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LDEM - Life peer) subjects —given that I am a physicist and former university researcher myself.In my subsequent career as a patent - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) lacking in this report is even a hint of understanding that to assume that “science” can be walled off - Speech Link
3: Baroness Morgan of Huyton (LAB - Life peer) It is not a tap that can be turned on and off. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) all acknowledge the pre-eminence of Oxford University research in the urgent quest for a vaccine and drugs - Speech Link