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HANSARD Covid-19: Response and Excess DeathsThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. That is very wise advice. I take the hon. Lady’s point, but the Government were reluctant to concede, at the beginning, that there might be risks…18 Apr 2024HANSARD Covid-19: Response and Excess DeathsWhen will the immunosuppressed have access to Evusheld? Will it be this week, next week, sometime or never?18 Apr 2024HANSARDAccess to Redress SchemesIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Richard Foord), and I am grateful to him for introducing this important subject. I am sorry that it has not…18 Apr 2024HANSARD Covid-19: Response and Excess DeathsThe hon. Gentleman has put on record what he wanted to say in that intervention. All I am saying is that, as the chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on covid-19 vaccine…18 Apr 2024HANSARD Covid-19: Response and Excess DeathsThe key question is: do the people who are being prescribed the antibiotics know that there is a risk that they will die as a result of them being prescribed? If so, they are told…18 Apr 2024HANSARD Covid-19: Response and Excess DeathsI agree that the benefits outweigh the risks, but I do not think we have ever had a system in this country where we license drugs on the basis that they will do more harm than…18 Apr 2024HANSARD Covid-19: Response and Excess DeathsAs we have just witnessed, feelings are very strong on this issue, and large numbers of people have suffered directly or indirectly as a result of having covid-19 vaccines. For…18 Apr 2024HANSARD Covid-19: Response and Excess DeathsExactly. One of the inhibitions there may have been on the Government’s part was that, to justify the use of emergency vaccines, it was necessary for them to believe that there…18 Apr 2024HANSARD Horticultural Peat: Prohibition of SaleI do not object to the right of my right hon. Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet (Theresa Villiers) to bring in the Bill, but I put it on record that it will not go unopposed.…16 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillDid my right hon. Friend hear the comments of Sir Chris Whitty on the radio this morning? He refused to apologise for or explain the failures of the NHS to deal with the issue of…16 Apr 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhen the National Crime Agency briefed Members who are interested in the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill, it estimated that between 550,000 and 800,000 serious sexual…26 Mar 2024HANSARD Points of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Would it be in order to reveal the identity of the person concerned? I notice that that did not happen yesterday, but it is well…26 Mar 2024HANSARD Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]I beg to move amendment 9, page 1, line 8, at end insert— “(2A) When making or exercising its functions under pedicab regulations, Transport for London must have regard to any…26 Mar 2024HANSARD Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]I begin by putting on record my appreciation for the positive way in which the Under-Secretary of State for Transport, my hon. Friend the Member for Hexham (Guy Opperman), has…26 Mar 2024HANSARD Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]I hear what my hon. Friend says, but the draft regulations have been changed to take into account the discussions on the Bill in the other place. As she confirms, a document…26 Mar 2024HANSARD Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]I accept that, but those concerns relate to the use of pedicabs when they are plying for hire, and people then getting into them and being—to put it colloquially—“ripped off.”…26 Mar 2024HANSARD Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]Will the Minister assure me that under no circumstances will the Government allow Transport for London to prevent pedicabs from being able to ply for hire?26 Mar 2024HANSARD Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]I thank the Minister and everybody who has participated in the debate. On the last point about plying for hire, it seems as though Transport for London is actively contemplating a…26 Mar 2024HANSARD Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]I, too, add my thanks to the people involved in this issue. In particular, I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Nickie Aiken) for the…26 Mar 2024HANSARDNational Networks National Policy StatementI have just a short contribution to make. The “National Networks National Policy Statement” refers at paragraph 3.2 to the fact that “Population growth and economic growth are the…26 Mar 2024