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HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Anyone who reads Sir Brian Langstaff’s report will see the emphasis he puts on culture and the chilling nature of what he talks about as…26 Jul 2024HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Hillsborough, Horizon, a number of other past scandals and this one are all severe and awful injustices, but what makes them even worse and…26 Jul 2024HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryMy hon. Friend raises a really important question. First and foremost, we need to consider very carefully the 12 recommendations that Sir Brian Langstaff has made. The Government…26 Jul 2024HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryProtection for whistleblowers is important; it is something the Government are considering and keep under constant review.26 Jul 2024HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryI can give my hon. Friend that assurance. We are looking to make and start those compensation payments by the end of the year. Again, I am sure the whole House offers its…26 Jul 2024HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryI am sure the whole House sends its sympathies to the Blake family on the loss of their son Stuart in such appalling, tragic circumstances. As I indicated a moment or two ago, I…26 Jul 2024HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryMy hon. Friend refers to one of the most chilling aspects of this scandal. There is no varnishing this; the reality is that children with haemophilia went to an…26 Jul 2024HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryI certainly join my hon. Friend in doing that. As we speak today, we really should recognise that it took decades—a frankly unacceptable length of time—for people to achieve…26 Jul 2024HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryI echo what the hon. Gentleman said about the scale of the scandal and his appropriate tribute to the victims. On the timescale, as I indicated in my statement, the additional…26 Jul 2024HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryI am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question. She is entirely right that we need to learn lessons from previous compensation schemes, where they have gone well, and, frankly,…26 Jul 2024HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryThe hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. I echo his tribute to his constituent Clive Smith for all his remarkable campaigning over many years. In respect of the hon. Gentleman’s…26 Jul 2024HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryWith permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to provide an update on the Government’s progress in responding to the infected blood inquiry’s report. I start by reiterating…26 Jul 2024HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryFirst, I think the whole House will have every sympathy with the situation that my hon. Friend’s constituents and their family find themselves in. In the scheme, there are of…26 Jul 2024HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryI am grateful to the hon. Lady for those questions, and I look forward to working with her on this issue on a cross-party basis throughout the next few months and, I suspect, for…26 Jul 2024HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his questions. First, may I say that, of course, the voice of victims should be absolutely central to this. I thank Sir Robert Francis for the…26 Jul 2024HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryI am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for the characteristically collegiate way in which he approached his perfectly reasonable questions. I shall deal with them one by…26 Jul 2024HANSARDEuropean Political CommunityIn the margins of the EPC, 44 countries signed up to a UK-led call to action to tackle the Russian shadow fleet, which is using malign shipping practices to evade sanctions and…25 Jul 2024HANSARDEuropean Political CommunityI am grateful for that question and the reminder of the number of responsibilities and tasks that will require delivery over the coming months and years. The written ministerial…25 Jul 2024HANSARDEuropean Political CommunityThe Government’s approach was set out in the Labour manifesto that was endorsed overwhelmingly at the general election. We will not rejoin the European Union, we will not return…25 Jul 2024HANSARDEuropean Political CommunityThe Government have been clear that we will not be returning to freedom of movement, but clearly we want economic and cultural ties to be far closer than they are at the…25 Jul 2024