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Westminster Hall
Cystic Fibrosis Drugs: Orkambi - Mon 10 Jun 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Paul Scully (CON - Sutton and Cheam) The Vertex drug is patent pending in Argentina, so another company is making a copy that can be sourced - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) set out in section 55(1) of the Patents Act 1977, the Government have the power to suspend Vertex’s patent - Speech Link
3: Mike Penning (CON - Hemel Hempstead) Those drugs can turn off that switch and make the situation better, but NICE was never set up to deal - Speech Link
4: Jeff Smith (LAB - Manchester, Withington) As we heard in Jake’s case, there is never a day off when combating the condition. - Speech Link
5: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) supply a product when its production costs mean it could do so without making a loss, it could lose its patent - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
World Immunisation Week - Thu 02 May 2019
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Rory Stewart (IND - Penrith and The Border) If the disease takes off, it will begin to infect hundreds of millions of people. - Speech Link
2: Thangam Debbonaire (LAB - Bristol West) AMR happens when microbes adapt to become resistant to antimicrobial drugs. - Speech Link
3: Dan Carden (LAB - Liverpool, Walton) We want a fairer international patent regime that helps people to access medicines, not pharmaceutical - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Antimicrobial Resistance - Thu 02 May 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Redfern (CON - Life peer) and the run-off from food producing units such as farms. - Speech Link
2: Lord Trees (CB - Life peer) That is the resistance of bacteria to particular drugs. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) bring to market will be prescribed only very sparingly rather than as a first-line treatment during its patent - Speech Link
4: Lord Lansley (CON - Life peer) As I understand it, the company is up for sale so, effectively, people would buy the patent and the drug - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
NICE Appraisals: Rare Diseases Treatments - Thu 21 Mar 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Liz Twist (LAB - Blaydon) That is illogical as, particularly with older drugs such as Kuvan, the drug will soon go off-patent. - Speech Link
2: Crispin Blunt (CON - Reigate) currently does not take into account the fact that when medicines lose their market exclusivity after patent - Speech Link
3: Mary Glindon (LAB - North Tyneside) that are covered by the cancer drugs fund, and none of the only six non-cancer orphan drugs reviewed - Speech Link
4: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) existing treatment is a strict diet of extremely low protein, meaning that almost all normal foods are off - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Orkambi - Mon 04 Feb 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) off the life of his daughter.My constituent explained how the long hours in hospital and in treatment - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) It remains patent to its manufacturer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, under UK patent law. - Speech Link
3: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) Crown use licensing could similarly be used to overturn the patent monopoly on Orkambi by Vertex. - Speech Link
4: Steve Brine (CON - Winchester) Friend has called on the Government to consider making use of the legal provision in UK patent law of - Speech Link
5: Steve Brine (CON - Winchester) There are many, many other drugs that demand our funds. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 Draft trade marks (Amendment Etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 - Thu 17 Jan 2019
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Chris Skidmore (CON - Kingswood) research and development through the pharmaceutical industry.I want to mention some of the individual drugs - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Committees, I am glad to have a change of scene.I want to pick up where the Opposition Front Bencher left off - Speech Link
3: Chris Skidmore (CON - Kingswood) Office and the European patent convention. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 - Mon 14 Jan 2019
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LDEM - Life peer) As patent attorneys, we tended to stay out of things. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LDEM - Life peer) It could become very difficult to tell when people took off the labels that said where it had come from - Speech Link
3: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) We have got off to a slightly ropey start, but I do not think anybody could argue that we have failed - Speech Link
4: Lord Henley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) As part of this, the UK will seek to remain within the unitary patent system and the unified patent court - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 - Mon 14 Jan 2019
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Adonis (LAB - Life peer) or a European patent. - Speech Link
2: None own professional practice was to do with electronics and computer architectures and a long way from drugs—although - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LDEM - Life peer) intervention because that is exactly the impression that I had got.To add to the Minister’s woes, I want to go off - Speech Link
4: Lord Henley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Obviously Brexit is not putting off certain parts of the life sciences industry, and I am sure the noble - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 3) Bill
3rd reading: House of Commons - Tue 08 Jan 2019
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Chris Elmore (LAB - Ogmore) Minister Gordon Brown, those first two quarters were successive periods of growth, and the economy fell off - Speech Link
2: Crispin Blunt (CON - Reigate) Amazingly, we are still going to have drugs supplied into the United Kingdom. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (CON - Life peer) The Government decided to put off the meaningful vote, although hopefully we will get it either this - Speech Link
4: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) , but miserly when it comes to the worst off. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Life Sciences Industrial Strategy (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Tue 23 Oct 2018
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord McColl of Dulwich (CON - Life peer) You have to run miles to take even a pound of fat off. - Speech Link
2: Lord Desai (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In the UK we have what I call a monopsony buyer of drugs. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) while, a proprietary drug can reap huge benefits, but, eventually, the profits will disappear when the patent - Speech Link
4: Lord Crisp (CB - Life peer) Also, it should not do that on an arbitrary salary level cut-off. - Speech Link