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Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 09 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Bird (XB - Life peer) Virtually all the homeless people I have worked with have been smokers and users of drugs and all sorts - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bull (XB - Life peer) evidence linking school absenteeism with various life-course problems, including risky behaviours, teenage pregnancy - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hormone Pregnancy Tests - Thu 07 Sep 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) to the heart of it—if we do not stop pharmaceutical companies flooding the markets unregulated and drugs - Speech Link
2: Esther McVey (CON - Tatton) heard from Professor Carl Heneghan, who described widespread problems with the reporting of adverse drugs - Speech Link
3: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) The researchers concluded that taking drugs such as Primodos increased the risk of birth defects by 40% - Speech Link
4: Allan Dorans (SNP - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) , in 1967 indicating the possible dangers of Primodos, no official warnings were issued about these drugs - Speech Link
5: Mike Penning (CON - Hemel Hempstead) Those drugs were given not through a pharmacist, but directly from the drug company to the GP to hand - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Human Medicines (Amendment Relating to Original Pack Dispensing) (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2023 - Tue 05 Sep 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Maria Caulfield (CON - Lewes) quantity prescribed should be the quantity supplied.Original pack dispensing will not apply to controlled drugs - Speech Link
2: Maria Caulfield (CON - Lewes) but it is associated with birth defects and neurological disabilities in babies exposed to it during pregnancy - Speech Link
3: Karin Smyth (LAB - Bristol South) by women, this could have been an opportunity to look again at packaging; women could then get the drugs - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Human Medicines (Amendment Relating to Original Pack Dispensing) (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2023 - Mon 24 Jul 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Markham (CON - Life peer) supply the exact quantity prescribed.It is important to note that OPD will not apply to controlled drugs - Speech Link
2: None The requirement for a pregnancy prevention programme was introduced in April 2018. - Speech Link
3: None All girls and women taking it should meet the requirements of the pregnancy prevention plan. - Speech Link
4: Lord Allan of Hallam (LDEM - Life peer) very precise amount, but less than the saving from a patient going to the pharmacist to pick up their drugs - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hyperemesis Gravidarum Awareness - Wed 19 Jul 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Sara Britcliffe (CON - Hyndburn) pregnancy.Moving on from diagnosis and early intervention, many women require medical treatment and drugs - Speech Link
2: Maria Caulfield (CON - Lewes) We recognise that there is not support for mums during and after pregnancy. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Under-age Vaping - Wed 12 Jul 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Daisy Cooper (LDEM - St Albans) hearing, some young children are being targeted and are taking the vape apart to carry much harder drugs - Speech Link
2: Neil O'Brien (CON - Harborough) we will offer innovative, but evidence-based, financial incentives for all women to stop smoking in pregnancy - Speech Link
3: Paulette Hamilton (LAB - Birmingham, Erdington) Vapes are also being used as a method of supplying harder drugs, which is a wider issue across our estate - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Artificial Intelligence - Thu 29 Jun 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Greg Clark (CON - Tunbridge Wells) It is designing drugs from data, and selecting the patients who stand to benefit from them. - Speech Link
2: Greg Clark (CON - Tunbridge Wells) very good point about an employer taking people’s temperatures, whether they could be an indication of pregnancy - Speech Link
3: Paul Scully (CON - Sutton and Cheam) seize the many opportunities that AI has to offer, from transforming our NHS with the discovery of new drugs - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Electronic Cigarettes - Thu 29 Jun 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (LAB - Ilford North) I look forward to finding out what that means for the Government’s drugs policy, but let me be the first - Speech Link
2: Neil O'Brien (CON - Harborough) innovative, world-first policy, and our provision of health incentives to help those smoking during pregnancy - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Victims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Tue 27 Jun 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) is already captured by a number of criminal offences under the Serious Crime Act 2007, the Misuse of Drugs - Speech Link
2: None A month before, he had told Katie’s mother that he would kill her daughter with drugs before killing - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) An additional payment can be made where a pregnancy directly results from the sexual assault.The scheme - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Victims and Prisoners Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Tue 27 Jun 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) solution for organisations, corporations and public bodies to settle cases of sexual misconduct, racism, pregnancy - Speech Link
2: Anna McMorrin (LAB - Cardiff North) As the drugs that he had been selling were confiscated by the police when he was picked up in the raid - Speech Link
3: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) There is a strong association with county lines, but it can also involve moving drugs, financial fraud - Speech Link
4: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) Why is a 15-year-old repeatedly running drugs across county lines? What is happening? - Speech Link