Extracts from Commons proceedings - Mar 22
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Extract from Westminster Hall debate on Leaving the EU: NHS
David Tredinnick (Bosworth) (Con):...I have used Chinese medicine
for years. I have no doubt that, post Brexit, when we have a better
opportunity to strike deals and are no longer being hampered by the
European Union’s restriction, we can bring those practices here. It
would be good to set up a trial. Also, the Minister should look at
the Indian Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani,
Siddha and...Request free trial
Extract from Westminster
Hall debate on Leaving the EU: NHS
David Tredinnick (Bosworth) (Con):...I have used Chinese medicine for years. I have no doubt that, post Brexit, when we have a better opportunity to strike deals and are no longer being hampered by the European Union’s restriction, we can bring those practices here. It would be good to set up a trial. Also, the Minister should look at the Indian Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy—AYUSH—which I will be visiting in September, to see how that wider base reduces healthcare costs in India... Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington) (LD):...Many Members have mentioned the impact on staffing levels, qualifications and retention, but I want to focus on one issue that I do not think other Members have mentioned. The Minister supported Brexit, and I want to understand whether he took into account the impact of our leaving the EU with respect to the falsified medicines directive. I suspect that there was not much small print behind that £350 million extra for the NHS every week. It certainly did not include a reference to the impact of the UK coming out of the EU in relation to the directive. For those not familiar with it, an EU-wide system ensures that medicines used in the NHS are known to be genuine, rather than being something created in a sweatshop in India, which is not what the packet says. The system is about making sure that everything used in the health service in the EU is genuine, and not falsified... Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter) (Lab): Does the right hon. Gentleman think that it is significant that the only Conservative Back Bencher to come and speak in this debate focused his remarks almost entirely on the benefits he saw of importing Chinese and Indian homeopathic medicine to this country? Does that not give the impression that there is such a paucity of positive arguments that they were the only ones that anyone could come up with?
Tom Brake: I think neither the
right hon. Gentleman nor I would like to read too much into that
earlier contribution. I doubt very much whether it is established
Government policy. The hon. Member for Bosworth (David
Tredinnick) is very much an outlier in terms of his approach
towards the health service generally... Extract from the seventh sitting of the Data Protection Bill committee
Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
(Lab):...Giving people a public option would be quite
attractive. There are, however, important safeguards that we need
to learn from. It would be a mistake to have biometric
information connected to that kind of service. We do not need
biometric information connected to that kind of service. The ID
card system in India has gone down that route, and it
has suffered pretty significant leaks of biometric data over the
past year and a half. If people get their hands on that data,
that will be far more dangerous. The Estonian system, in which
people have an electronic ID and a password that sits in their
head—a two-factor authentication—has proven much more
successful... Extract from Business Questions (Commons) Martin Docherty-Hughes (West Dunbartonshire) (SNP): As we speak, in India, an application for an independent medical examination of my constituent, Jagtar Singh Johal, is being made in relation to accusations of torture nearly four months ago. Does the Leader of the House agree that, given the very important report by Redress, a notable charity, and the up and coming Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in April, it is now time for Government time to be given to debate the torture and ill-treatment of UK nationals abroad? The Leader of the House of Commons (Andrea Leadsom): The UK Government, of course, take every step possible to ensure good treatment of UK nationals wherever they find themselves, and we strive very hard to ensure that our views are made clear to all those who would perpetrate such crimes against UK nationals. With regard to the specific individual mentioned, again, if the hon. Gentleman wants to write to me, I can take the matter up with Home Office Ministers. Extracts from Commons debate on the Economy Giles Watling (Clacton) (Con): I hate to go back to A. A. Milne, but I am hearing Eeyore all over the place. In the past half an hour, I have received news that Dura Composites in Clacton-on-Sea is going to start exporting to India. There is great news everywhere if we just look for it, but if the hon. Gentleman keeps talking things down, that will not do the country any good at all.
Peter Dowd (Bootle) (Lab):
Well, I have been hearing a lot of “Pooh” today, quite frankly. I
remind the House that, yes, Tigger was the one who bounced all
over the place, but he also created inventions that always went
wrong. That is what is going to happen here, so I ask Members to
go and read about that... |