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Written Question
TRIPS Agreement: Coronavirus
Tuesday 8th November 2022

Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of extending the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights to cover covid-19 therapeutics and diagnostic tests on global access to covid-19 vaccinations and treatments.

Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

I refer the Hon. Member for Streatham to the answer given by my Rt Hon. Friend the Minister of State for Trade Policy to the Hon. Member for Harrow West on 17 October 2022, UIN: 61708.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 02 Nov 2022
Black Maternal Health Awareness Week 2022

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered Black maternal health awareness week.

Thank you very much, Mr Gray; it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I thank my colleagues for their kind points of order. I am thankful, as always, that this debate has been awarded, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 02 Nov 2022
Black Maternal Health Awareness Week 2022

"I thank the hon. Member for his intervention, and he is absolutely right. I will come to training soon enough, and to what I believe individual trusts should be doing.

In addition to the Five X More report, Birthrights has recently published the findings of its inquiry into racial injustice …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 02 Nov 2022
Black Maternal Health Awareness Week 2022

"They are a standard part of government, but we have lost count of the Health Secretaries and Ministers covering this brief. Today, we have a Minister from a different Department addressing us. I know it may seem like I am making a party political point, but regardless of reshuffles, Government …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 02 Nov 2022
Black Maternal Health Awareness Week 2022

"Increased risk...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 02 Nov 2022
Black Maternal Health Awareness Week 2022

"I thank all Members for participating in the debate and adding their voices to all those that are calling for steps to be taken to end racial disparities in maternity care. It is always reassuring to hear just how much support there is across the House when the issues are …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 02 Nov 2022
Black Maternal Health Awareness Week 2022

"My apologies. I would like to leave the Minister with a few more suggestions about measures that her Department might wish to introduce. The first is for the Government to introduce this target. I understand your reasoning—..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 02 Nov 2022
Black Maternal Health Awareness Week 2022

"I understand the Minister’s reasoning for not having a target. It may appear logical, but given that the data shows that those women’s children have a 43% increased chance of being miscarried, and a 121% increased chance of being stillborn, I do not understand how the Government can say that …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 13 Jun 2022
Transgender Conversion Therapy

"Will my hon. Friend give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Apr 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"The export support service is clearly not working. In 2016, the Vote Leave campaign promised us tariff-free trade with the EU with minimum bureaucracy, not another support scheme. We find ourselves in a bureaucratic nightmare with freight delays and red tape blocking what was once hassle-free trade. SMEs in my …..."
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