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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Nov 2022
Covid-19: PPE Procurement

"The Minister has made much of the context of the time and the speed and the calls for PPE, but what my and, I am sure, everybody else’s constituents wanted was PPE quickly and appropriately. Earlier this year the High Court ruled that the Government’s VIP lanes were not only …..."
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Written Question
Department of Health and Social Care: Redundancy Pay
Monday 21st November 2022

Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse has been of Ministerial severance pay in his Department in each year since 1 January 2016.

Answered by Will Quince

The provision of severance payments for Ministers is set out in legislation. Details of the severance payments made to Ministers on leaving office are published in the Department’s Annual Reports and Accounts.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"11. If his Department will make an assessment of the long-term impacts of use of (a) benzodiazepines and (b) other opioids on children being treated for acute forms of epilepsy. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Benzodiazepines are not appropriate for all children, and the Secretary of State has been instrumental in approving medicinal cannabis for use by children with epilepsy. I recently visited a medicinal cannabis farm in the borders of Scotland, which is poised to make an important contribution to the pharmaceutical industry in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Dec 2021
Dignity in Dying

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Dec 2021
Dignity in Dying

"The right hon. Gentleman is making a very powerful speech on a highly emotive issue. He mentioned Liam McArthur’s Bill in the Scottish Parliament, which was the subject of consultation, and there is movement in Scotland. The right hon. Gentleman spoke of the reticence of some Members or their reluctance …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 04 Nov 2021
Medical Cannabis: Alleviation of Health Conditions

"It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Manchester, Withington (Jeff Smith). I thank the hon. Member for Inverclyde (Ronnie Cowan) for securing this debate on medicinal cannabis.

I am sure I am not alone in this place in often being asked by people, “What is it that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 04 Nov 2021
Medical Cannabis: Alleviation of Health Conditions

"I thank the hon. Member for his intervention. He is absolutely right; I could not agree more. We all thought it was done, but more importantly, and more upsettingly, so did the families of the hundreds of children, and adults, who would benefit—adults with conditions such as multiple sclerosis for …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 04 Nov 2021
Medical Cannabis: Alleviation of Health Conditions

"I thank the hon. Member for his comments, and I do take comfort from that, but more importantly, the many hundreds of families watching to see what we do will take comfort from the fact that they have support on the Government Benches as well as the Opposition Benches. I …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 04 Nov 2021
Medical Cannabis: Alleviation of Health Conditions

"That is all very well, but it brings us back to the fact that there are children who are already benefiting from the drugs. Even the NHS has asked whether it would not be beneficial to have an alternative trial, such as an observational one, and to use that evidence, …..."
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