Contaminated Blood
I beg to move,
That this House has considered the need for an independent public inquiry in...
My hon. Friend is completely right to thank all those people, but there is one person missing fro...
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I am grateful to my hon. Friend for those comments, but this is down to the combined effort of so...
I pay tribute to my hon. Friend, who has been dogged in her determination and in not giving up. M...
My hon. Friend makes that point well.
I want to comment on how we handle disasters and on t...
I add my congratulations to the hon. Lady on her brilliant leadership on this issue. While the an...
The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point. The timetabling of any inquiry needs to be set...
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way on that point, and I congratulate her and Andy Bur...
Just like every other Member, I have only seen what is out in the media, and I understand that th...
I join in the tributes to the hon. Lady and the all-party group, of which I have been a member, b...
Absolutely. The right hon. and learned Gentleman makes a good point and I will come on to that .<...
My hon. Friend is making a powerful case, and I thank her for all her work. As she said at the be...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. This tragedy has taken the life of more than 2,400 people wit...
My constituent, who does not wish to be named, wants us to include the remit of the Skipton Fund ...
The hon. Lady makes an important point.
I congratulate my hon. Friend on her work on this issue. I welcome the fact that there will be a ...
Those are important questions for any inquiry to address.
On today’s announcement, the West...
I pay tribute to the hon. Lady’s chairpersonship of the all-party parliamentary group. My constit...
The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, and I certainly agree .
I pay tribute to the hon. Lady for her outstanding leadership on this important issue. My constit...
My hon. Friend is correct. We need to look carefully at the support that has been provided for th...
I add my thanks, on behalf of my constituent Haydn Lewis and his family. Haydn and his brother ha...
That is an excellent point, and it needs to be considered.
Will the hon. Lady give way?
I will give way one last time.
I am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way. I pay tribute to her on behalf of my constituent J...
That goes to the heart of it. There has never been any finding of liability, which has resulted i...
Order. Just before I call the first speaker from the Back Bench, I should say that at this stage ...
On a point of order, Mr Speaker.
Do we really have to have it? I know what I am doing and am perfectly capable of handling the mat...
It is the Minister—
No, no. I do not need to be advised by the right hon. Gentleman on the handling of the debate. Le...
I am very grateful to you, Mr Speaker. May I join colleagues in paying tribute to the hon. Member...
I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Diana Johnson) on her lead...
I think the victims who looked at the Scottish settlement have taken that point on board—that is ...
Order. I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that. Just before more Opposition Member...
Thank you for your guidance, Mr Speaker.
First and foremost, thanks must go to my outstandi...
Two of my constituents have two particular matters that they want the inquiry to consider: first,...
I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. The evidence on those things has been well documente...
Does my hon. Friend agree that the report, “Self Sufficiency in Blood Products in England and Wal...
All of this evidence will have to be examined. In recent days, constituents affected by this scan...
I thank you, Mr Speaker, for explaining to the House the sequence in which we are speaking today ...
I am very pleased with the news that the Minister has just confirmed. Will he ensure that the pro...
I shall come on directly to the form that the independent inquiry should take, and I hope that th...
Will my hon. Friend tell the House whether the terms of the inquiry will allow for recommendation...
I shall make a little progress, then endeavour to answer that.
My right hon. Friend the Sec...
I am grateful for what the Minister is saying, but can he give a time estimate of when the meetin...
The hon. Lady, who has taken an active lead in encouraging inquiries, will want to make sure that...
The Minister has mentioned the Department of Health, and he will know that my constituents live u...
We recognise that there is a legitimate interest for all constituent nations in the United Kingdo...
Does my hon. Friend agree that, quite rightly, the inquiry has to give answers to the victims of ...
I completely agree with my hon. Friend.
I shall make a little progress on devolved matters before responding to other colleagues. Regardl...
First, I apologise to the House, the Minister and to you, Mr Speaker, for not being present at th...
We will ask the Northern Ireland Office to facilitate discussions with officials and representati...
On the point about devolution made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Delyn (David Hanson), i...
The scope of the inquiry will be determined as part of the discussions which, as I have said, wil...
I very much welcome the Minister’s comments. Will he confirm that when the scope of the inquiry i...
My hon. Friend will recollect that the recent Hillsborough inquiry gave rise to certain informati...
I must make progress, because Mr Speaker has encouraged me to take 10 minutes so that everyone ca...
I thank the Minister for what he said about input into the inquiry. As the new chair of the all-p...
I have just described the additional contribution to the financial scheme for England. It will be...
My constituent, Lesley Hughes, was infected with hepatitis C in 1970, but this was discovered onl...
I offer my sympathy to my right hon. Friend’s constituent for the challenges she finds herself fa...
I thank the Minister for being extremely generous in giving way. May I press him on the issue of ...
I think it would be appropriate to write to the inquiry, once that is established. I completely c...
I appeal to the Scottish National party spokesperson certainly not to exceed 10 minutes, and pref...
As the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Diana Johnson) said, 2,400 people have died foll...
I am reluctant to interrupt the hon. Lady’s remarks, but may I point out that the support also ex...
The Scottish Government set up the Penrose inquiry, but I would assume that any inquiry will look...
Does the hon. Lady agree that the lack of trust has been enhanced by documents such as “Self-Suff...
The inquiry will have to look at all those things. Documents, patients’ records, things that were...
I congratulate the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Diana Johnson) on securing this impo...
It will be important that the inquiry goes far enough back. The decision to heat-treat albumin fo...
I thank the hon. Lady for that input. It is absolutely right that she, like all our constituents,...
The hon. Lady talks about a reformed scheme, and some people have fallen outside the existing sch...
I thank the hon. Gentleman for bringing that point forward. There is nothing more frustrating for...
Order. Can I just advise the House that with the exception of the maiden speaker whom I am about ...
Thank you very much indeed, Mr Speaker. I am very grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Kings...
I, too, start by paying tribute to the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Diana Johnson) f...
Does my hon. Friend agree that the inquiry needs to consider the challenges faced by people affec...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. These terrible diseases have so many tragic implications. Thr...
My hon. Friend is making a very good case. Does he agree that, while we welcome the Government’s ...
I absolutely agree. The Minister may confirm at the end of the debate, if he gets the chance, tha...
Order. May I remind hon. Members that Mr Speaker asked that speeches be kept to about five minute...
I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Diana Johnson) for her sterling wo...
The Oxford Haemophilia Centre serves my constituents. I thank the hon. Member for Kingston upon H...
I absolutely agree. I am glad that the hon. Lady raised that point, which I was about to move on ...
It is a pleasure to see you in your place, Madam Deputy Speaker. This is the first time that I ha...
Like my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Diana Johnson), I became engaged in ...
I welcome you, Madam Deputy Speaker, as this is the first time I have spoken since you have been ...
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way because I, too, have a constituent who has been in...
I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention and I could not agree more. Transparency should be t...
I want to speak in this debate on behalf of my constituents, Lin Ashcroft and the Smith family, v...
It was interesting to hear the reflections of the hon. Member for Newport East (Jessica Morden) a...
The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the Prime Minister recently made the wise announcement that...
The hon. Lady makes a powerful point. I am sure that the Minister will have heard it and will wis...
Thank you for calling me to speak, Madam Deputy Speaker. This is the first chance I have had to s...
The right hon. Gentleman is making a powerful case, and he has just mentioned a point that I was ...
The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. The constituents who have approached me are concerned abou...
I am also pleased to speak on this occasion with you in the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker. Picking ...
I am grateful to my hon. Friend. The point that I want to finish on—[ Interruption. ] Does the Mi...
Briefly. I remind the right hon. Gentleman, who is making some important points, that we intend t...
I am grateful for that intervention, because that reassures me and my constituents about the proc...
Order. I do not want to impose a formal time limit, but I would ask Members to try to keep to fou...
I welcome you to your place, Madam Deputy Speaker.
I join other Members in paying tribute t...
This is also the first time I have had the pleasure of speaking in this House with you in the Cha...
I wish to start by echoing what has been said by so many in paying tribute to the victims of this...
Trust is the key word—trust and faith, if people have that, in the inquiry. Every story is differ...
Absolutely; the victims and their families have the right and deserve to know what happened. They...
May I, too, welcome you to your new role, Madam Deputy Speaker? I am absolutely delighted. I cong...
Like other hon. Members, Madam Deputy Speaker, I welcome you to the Chair. I also wish to put on ...
I, too, welcome you to your place, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have a confession, or an apology, to m...
I thank the Government very much for the announcement. I am new to the issue, and I pay tribute t...
I thank the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Diana Johnson) for calling the debate and f...
Welcome to your place, Madam Deputy Speaker, and thank you for squeezing me in at the end of the ...
It is delightful to see you in your new place in the Chamber, Madam Deputy Speaker. I congratulat...
Does my hon. Friend agree that these blood products should have been withdrawn as soon as the ris...
That is a good point, and I hope the inquiry will be able to get to grips with it.
I am rea...