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Lords Chamber
Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
Report stage:Report: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Thu 14 Jan 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None I reassure the House that we continue to explore recommendation 4 on redress schemes for sodium valproate - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cumberlege (CON - Life peer) It is not just the individual: it is the family and it is the children, especially with sodium valproate - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jolly (LDEM - Life peer) Mesh is technically a device and sodium valproate was the medicine. - Speech Link


Written Statements
Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review - Mon 11 Jan 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Nadine Dorries (CON - Mid Bedfordshire) immediately issue a fulsome apology on behalf of the healthcare system to the families affected by Primodos, sodium - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
DHSC Answers to Written Questions - Thu 19 Nov 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Cat Smith (LAB - Lancaster and Fleetwood) In my time in this House, I have campaigned alongside women and families affected by sodium valproate - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 7th sitting (Hansard) - Thu 19 Nov 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None My noble friend Lord O’Shaughnessy, who I know has done a huge amount of work on sodium valproate with - Speech Link
2: None society, we cannot expose more babies to being disabled because their mothers are not told about the sodium - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) happens about the harms that were done—the avoidable harms, in the case of hormone pregnancy tests, sodium - Speech Link
4: Baroness Cumberlege (CON - Life peer) valproate and pelvic mesh. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 6th sitting (Hansard) - Tue 17 Nov 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord O'Shaughnessy (CON - Life peer) of pelvic organ prolapse in tens of thousands of people; and the 20,000 people exposed in utero to sodium - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cumberlege (CON - Life peer) One in two have a chance of having a disabled child if they are on sodium valproate, and they do not - Speech Link
3: None Finally, on sodium valproate, surgical mesh and Primodos, a lot of these people are very sick. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 12 Nov 2020
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Liz Twist (LAB - Blaydon) Cumberlege produced her report “First do no harm” on the problems caused by vaginal mesh, Primodos and sodium - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 5th sitting (Hansard) - Wed 11 Nov 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Freyberg (CB - Excepted Hereditary) the noble Baroness, Lady Cumberlege, said about the ongoing situation that faces those affected by sodium - Speech Link
2: None No one could tell us how many women taking sodium valproate to control their epilepsy had given birth - 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 Cumberlege (CON - Life peer) , I fear that we did not convince them.The second medication reviewed was sodium valproate. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) They also point out that, as the noble Baroness reminded us, even today sodium valproate is given to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
2nd reading - Wed 02 Sep 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Cumberlege (CON - Life peer) Secondly, there is sodium valproate, an effective medication to control epilepsy. - Speech Link
2: Lord Brennan (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The French company Sanofi, which makes sodium valproate, have a capitalised value of over €100 billion - Speech Link
3: Baroness Masham of Ilton (CB - Life peer) I have been involved with the disaster of sodium valproate, the drug given to pregnant women with epilepsy - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hollins (CB - Life peer) was asked to look at three interventions in particular detail: hormone pregnancy tests, the use of sodium - Speech Link