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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 25 Apr 2022
Health and Care Bill

"I will speak briefly to Government amendment 48A, which is in lieu of amendment 48B. Essentially, it requires the health service to ensure that it does not use products made under forced or slave labour anywhere in the world. That is a big statement by the Health Department, and one …..."
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Written Question
Hikvision
Wednesday 6th April 2022

Asked by: Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative - Chingford and Woodford Green)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Hikvision products are in use in (a) his Department and (b) the NHS.

Answered by Edward Argar

There are 82 Hikvision products in use in the Department. Information on the usage of Hikvision products by the National Health Service is not collected centrally.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Mar 2022
Health and Care Bill

"I hope to speak on this subject if I catch your eye, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I want to make the point that right now, even though it is not meant to be allowed, the NHS is using products made by slave labour. Only two days ago, The Spectator demonstrated …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Mar 2022
Health and Care Bill

"I shall try to be brief. I rise to speak to amendments (a) and (b) in lieu of Lords amendment 48, which refers to genocide. Along with 19 colleagues, some of whom are present, I tabled amendment (b) to recognise first a problem for the Government, and secondly an absolute …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Mar 2022
Health and Care Bill

"Will the Minister give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Mar 2022
Health and Care Bill

"Can the Minister tell his colleagues in the Government that there is never a good time? Now is the right time, and let us get on with it...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Dec 2021
Covid-19 Update

"First, I say to my right hon. Friend that it is welcome he has come here today, but I am a bit concerned about the mixed and heavy messaging coming from the Government, the unintended consequences of which can be dire. I notice, as has my right hon. Friend the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Sep 2021
Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-olds

"I welcome my hon. Friend’s statement, but I want to return to the issue of where the children will make this decision. The reality is that we have parents taking responsibility for their children, and at the end of the day we say we are going to ask them whether …..."
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Written Question
Coronavirus: Dogs
Thursday 10th June 2021

Asked by: Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative - Chingford and Woodford Green)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of using trained covid detection dogs to identify covid-19 infections; and if he will urgently set out a timescale for deployment of those dogs.

Answered by Jo Churchill

The Department has been funding a clinical trial investigating whether COVID-19 can be detected by dogs. This work has been undertaken by a coalition including the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the charity Medical Detection Dogs.

We have received the results from phase one of the trial.

NHS Test and Trace is engaging with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Medical Detection Dogs about potential next phases of the trial.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Dec 2020
Covid-19 Update

"I fully recognise my right hon. Friend’s serious dilemmas—it is not an enviable position—but the application of tier 3 to London raises some questions. I have had long conversations in my borough with public health and the hospitals, and they maintain that the infection rate is now almost exclusively among …..."
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