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HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillI will come to those points shortly. All medicines have risks and side effects—even simple paracetamol, which is taken safely by the vast majority of people, can have serious side…20 Oct 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope) on securing the Second Reading of this Bill. This is an important issue, and I thank him for the…20 Oct 2023HANSARDWorker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) BillDoes the hon. Gentleman not recognise that this is the Bill of the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse) and it is up to her to decide which amendments she does or does not accept?…20 Oct 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillAbsolutely. I will finish my points to my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch and then come back to my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley. It is for the inquiry to decide what…20 Oct 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillI hear that loud and clear from my right hon. Friend. I would just say that when advertising and recruiting for a clinical trial, any posters—I have not done this for a couple of…20 Oct 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillMy hon. Friend makes a point. A review of the limit is not just down to the Department of Health and Social Care. I went to a meeting of the all-party parliamentary group chaired…20 Oct 2023HANSARD Trends in Excess DeathsI congratulate the hon. Member for North West Leicestershire (Andrew Bridgen) on securing this important debate. I only have five minutes of this 30-minute debate to respond. I…20 Oct 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillI did not address the point my hon. Friend made on that. The difference is that around 93% of the population received at least one dose of the covid-19 vaccine—tens of millions of…20 Oct 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillThe Government are always happy to give evidence to the inquiry. My hon. Friend makes a good point. I have had correspondence from constituents and from people around the country…20 Oct 2023HANSARD Black History MonthI am not able to give a firm commitment from the Dispatch Box this afternoon, but I can update the hon. Lady, and I shall be happy to write to her with some firm timelines after…19 Oct 2023HANSARDBirth TraumaI absolutely pay tribute to them. We have heard some great examples of work happening around the country, but the point has also been made that it is not consistently available to…19 Oct 2023HANSARD Black History MonthI am grateful to be able to contribute to this Adjournment debate to mark Black History Month. I congratulate the hon. Member for Erith and Thamesmead (Abena Oppong-Asare) on what…19 Oct 2023HANSARD Baby Loss Awareness WeekI start by thanking the hon. Members for North Shropshire (Helen Morgan) and for Sheffield, Hallam (Olivia Blake). I know the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam could not be here…19 Oct 2023HANSARDBirth TraumaI, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford (Theo Clarke) on her courageous speech, in which she described the birth of her daughter and the terrifying experience…19 Oct 2023HANSARD Black History MonthI have not seen the report, but I shall be happy to look at it, because the question of how people feel is important, in terms of both their experience and how it shapes their…19 Oct 2023HANSARD Black History MonthThe hon. Lady raised that point in her speech. We want to make sure that this is a fair scheme. The Home Office has reduced the time taken to allocate a claim for a substantive…19 Oct 2023HANSARDPregnancy Loss Review Recommendations: ImplementationI wish to inform the House of our progress in implementing the recommendations of the pregnancy loss review following Baby Loss Awareness Week last week. The sensitive handling…19 Oct 2023HANSARDSuicide PreventionLast month, we published a cross-Government five-year suicide prevention strategy. It sets out our pledge to reduce England’s suicide rates within two and a half years, with over…17 Oct 2023HANSARDSuicide PreventionI thank my hon. Friend for his hard work in this area and for his mental health campaigning overall, and also his wife and all who selflessly give their time to volunteer with the…17 Oct 2023HANSARDSuicide PreventionWe have had a huge response to the opening of the grant, with over 1,800 applications from voluntary groups and organisations. We are assessing those bids and hope to make an…17 Oct 2023