Contaminated Blood

My hon. Friend is right about that. I will go on to say why this debate is happening today, and t...

Does my right hon. Friend share my concern that in cases where haemophilia is passed down through...

My right hon. Friend has been a doughty campaigner on this issue, and I have been grateful to her...

On the point about the support mechanism, does my right hon. Friend agree that it is unacceptable...

My hon. Friend is right that many beneficiaries have expressed deep concern about the workings of...

The right hon. Gentleman read out a list of people to whom he wished to pay tribute. May I add hi...

There is no doubt that these matters predated devolution. As most colleagues are aware, there is ...

rose—

I will give way, but I hope that Mr Speaker will be understanding.

The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the Penrose inquiry. We are all awaiting that report with grea...

My latest understanding is that the Penrose inquiry has said that later this month it will announ...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way and pay tribute to him for the tremendous amount ...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind remarks and I appreciate them very much. Yes, on...

I must admit that this issue was not on the radar for me until recently, when I had a discussion ...

I am deeply grateful to my hon. Friend, but the gratitude should actually be given to the suffere...

I do not wish to embarrass the right hon. Gentleman, who has cross-party support on this issue, b...

Again, I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind remarks. I do not think there is time, be...

On the point that my right hon. Friend was just making about what could be done without any more ...

I thank my hon. Friend. The report by my hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley and the hon. Mem...

Like other colleagues, I pay tribute to the work that my right hon. Friend has done on this. I do...

My hon. Friend puts it very well. He is yet another example of an MP who does not have a constitu...

I apologise for not having been here at the beginning of the right hon. Gentleman’s speech. I wan...

I personally think that it is. That process will be informed by what the all-party group has spok...

My right hon. Friend has worked very hard on this issue, as has the all-party group on haemophili...

I thank my hon. Friend for her kind words, and I agree with her. I will come to the trust investe...

rose—

Order. In order to try to accommodate everyone who wishes to contribute to this important debate,...

May I start by thanking the right hon. Member for North East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt) for sec...

I congratulate my hon. Friend and other Members involved in producing this excellent report. One ...

I am grateful for that intervention. I think I should be allocated an additional minute that has ...

As co-sponsor of this important debate I thank the Backbench Business Committee for scheduling it...

rose—

Order. Before I call any more speakers, it may not have escaped the notice of Members that there ...

I went to the launch of the report by the all-party group yesterday. On behalf of my constituents...

The hon. Member for Newport East (Jessica Morden) has explained this tragedy extremely well. I fi...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that people need help through the difficult and complex process to ...

Yes, I do agree. The hon. Gentleman will know that there were people who underwent treatment for ...

May I say from the outset how pleased I am that the right hon. Member for North East Bedfordshire...

My hon. Friend will be aware that some of us who have sought for many years to get legislation th...

Yes, I certainly concur with my right hon. Friend and commend him for his work in this field.

I have attended today’s debate for three reasons. First, I know of two constituents who have suff...

A point put to me is how infuriating and occasionally humiliating it is when, on meeting a new cl...

I thank my hon. Friend for that point. It speaks directly about an issue I am coming on to. Anne ...

I did not challenge; I added.

Added, quite right.

We honour our military with a covenant. For the sacrifices they make fo...

I congratulate the right hon. Member for North East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt) on the typically...

I have listened to many of these stories with growing anger. Constituents of mine have also been ...

In a word, yes.

The right hon. Gentleman has said that the risks must have been known. Is he aware that the move ...

The hon. Gentleman has made an important point, which I fully accept.

My second example com...

I echo the right hon. Member for Knowsley (Mr Howarth) in describing this as a debt of honour. Th...

My hon. Friend said that this was an example of gross negligence by the state. In addition to wha...

I entirely agree, and I do not think this is just a question of money. If we attack the Governmen...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that, because we are talking about quite a small number of people, ...

Yes, I want to deal with that point, and I am glad that the hon. Lady has made that intervention....

I stand in this House in the footsteps of giants. My predecessor Paul Goggins was a tireless camp...

A constituent of mine has also raised this point. Does the hon. Gentleman not find it odd that, a...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman.

Many of the victims have lost the will to fight. There sho...

Today’s debate has been very well informed, and I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member ...

I apologise for my cold, but I promised my constituent, John Prior from Moodiesburn, this morning...

In supporting this motion, I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for North East Bedfords...

Like other Members, it is appropriate that I should pay tribute to the right hon. Member for Nort...

I thank my hon. Friend for his kind comments and I wish to pay tribute to the tireless work of th...

I am grateful for that intervention. I was about to discuss Jim Dobbin, so my hon. Friend fortuna...

I am grateful to my colleagues inside and outside Parliament for working so effectively with the ...

In preparing for this debate, I looked at the debate that my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry ...

My hon. Friend makes a good point about the difficulty produced by Penrose’s not reporting much e...

It has been. It is, I think, tragic that we may go into another Parliament without a solution to ...

Mr Deputy Speaker, having come late to the debate because of a clash with a meeting of a parliame...

I am not sure that the exact undertaking that the Prime Minister gave is recorded anywhere, but i...

That is exactly my view, and for that reason I wrote to the Secretary of State for Health, drawin...

I pay tribute to the right hon. Member for North East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt) and others who...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way so early in his speech. He, like me, is the Member for a We...

I agree very much with my hon. Friend. We need a UK solution because this is a UK problem, so wor...

My hon. Friend is making an incredibly powerful case, but what strikes me is that not only the in...

Absolutely. It rips through not only the individual but their families, friends and every other a...

I shall try to restrict my speech to two minutes, because I know that we want to hear the speeche...

We have heard a series of fine speeches today—as has been said, Parliament truly at its best—but ...

My right hon. Friend is making a very important point. Nobody wants to point the finger of blame,...

I believe that it is. The hon. Member for Bedford (Richard Fuller) made this point. Perhaps there...

I welcome the tone with which the shadow Secretary of State responded to the debate on behalf of ...

The Minister has touched on the nub of the issue, namely the Penrose report and the delayed decis...

I will come on to why I do not entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman, but my concern is essentia...

A moment ago, the Minister said that, given the late reporting of Penrose, she would have to cons...

I will come on to that. Although I cannot be as specific as I would like, I will try to give the ...

The Minister will recall that my right hon. Friend the shadow Secretary of State made some profou...

I have noted the comments of the shadow Secretary of State. I can only speak from my own experien...

I thank all Members who have spoken. What I am most proud of is my role in enabling this debate t...