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HANSARDCovid-19: Brazilian VariantThose who travel to the UK must fill in a passenger locator form. On the PLF they have to state whether they have been in a red list country. We also share an enormous amount of…02 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Brazilian VariantMy Lords, I remind my noble friend that we have some mandatory vaccination already in place in the health service; those who perform operations and other intimate health…02 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review: Sodium ValproateMy Lords, I will leave it to the response to the Cumberlege review to make the decision on the redress scheme. In the meantime, our focus is on a regime ensuring that those who…02 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review: Sodium ValproateMy Lords, I pay tribute to those who have put together the valproate registry scheme that became live on 11 February. My noble friend is entirely right. There are 22,095 people on…02 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review: Sodium ValproateAs my noble friend rightly acknowledges, the everyday workings of the commissioner require some work. That work is being finalised and regulations will be made setting out further…02 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Brazilian VariantMy Lords, the challenge we have is uncertainty. Genomic sequencing data links the Brazilian variant to the South African variant, the so-called E484K mutation. We also acknowledge…02 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review: Sodium ValproateThe noble Lord puts it extremely well and I totally agree with the thrust of his point. For patients to have the right information about the risks of the medicines that they are…02 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Brazilian VariantThe noble Lord is entirely right. Things are happening around the world which are causing a great deal of anxiety. Stories of possible reinfection in South Africa are extremely…02 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review: Sodium ValproateMy Lords, the Government plan to respond further to the Cumberlege review later this year, as I committed in my recent Written Ministerial Statement. In the meantime, we are…02 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review: Sodium ValproateMy Lords, I welcome the noble Baroness’s point on the proportion of those who say they have filled in the form. Phase 1 of the registry is a helpful collection of statistics, but…02 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review: Sodium ValproateI am grateful to the noble Lord for raising that study. It is not one that I am aware of, and I am keen to go back to the department to find out whether it has done any analysis…02 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Brazilian VariantI endorse the noble Lord’s observation that tracing is important. I pay tribute to the Operation Eagle team. The noble Lord will note that the South African variant, which made…02 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid Contracts: Judicial ReviewMy Lords, the noble Lord puts it extremely well, and he takes me right back to those days. I remember making a public call for help with diagnostics, and an NHSBSA call centre was…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid Contracts: Judicial ReviewMy Lords, it is not for me to do the post-match analysis; that will be for those in the future. I reassure the noble Baroness that we have 32 billion units of PPE procured,…01 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers and Self-Isolation) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021My Lords, this regulation covers important aspects of the enforcement of isolation. Noble Lords will recognise that isolation is the key tool that most effectively breaks the…01 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers and Self-Isolation) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021That the Regulations laid before the House on 29 January be approved. Relevant document: 45th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid Contracts: Judicial ReviewThat is a reasonable question, and, in fact, that was our starting point: the noble Lord will remember that, at the beginning of all of this, we supplied PPE to 252 NHS trusts and…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid Contracts: Judicial ReviewI am enormously grateful for the colourful character of that question. However, the noble Lord makes a serious point. We do respect the law, which is why we have published the…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid Contracts: Judicial ReviewAs the noble Lord knows, I cannot comment on some of those cases specifically because they are subject to legal action at the moment. However, in broad strokes, I say that there…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid Contracts: Judicial ReviewThe right honourable Secretary of State for Health and Social Care put it extremely well. For those of us who were there at the time, the priority was saving lives, not publishing…01 Mar 2021