Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his helpfulness and the work he has done on this amendment abo...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, is so grateful to the Minister that she asked two of u...

My Lords, I am the third person to congratulate the Minister. I add the support of these Benches ...

I am truly touched to have been thanked personally by proxy by two noble Baronesses. I am gratefu...

Moved by

Lord O'Shaughnessy

2: Before Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—

Moved by

Lord Warner

3: Before Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—

“Duty...

My Lords, Amendment 3, in my name and those of the noble Lords, Lord Patel and Lord Hunt of Kings...

My Lords, in supporting the amendment, I reiterate my support for the general purpose of the Bill...

My Lords, first, as we are entering Report, I declare my interests as president of the Healthcare...

My Lords, I will speak briefly on this amendment, although there are later ones in my name which ...

My Lords, there is considerable frustration on the part of patients and the industries when NICE ...

My Lords, I support this amendment, to which I have added my name. I do not agree with the noble ...

My Lords, I am grateful for the quality of the debate on this amendment. Before I turn to the spe...

Did I understand my noble friend to say that, once a medicine or treatment has been approved by N...

The treatments become available throughout the NHS from three months after the appraisal.

My Lords, given that I took the order through Parliament many years ago, I can confirm that the w...

My Lords, I am grateful to all my colleagues for the powerful support they have given to the amen...

Moved by

Lord Lansley

4: Clause 3, page 2, line 32, at end insert—

“( ) After s...

My Lords, even though the House has just divided, the Bill has been characterised by a substantia...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, has raised a very important point. For me, the question i...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Lansley for bringing this amendment and for the o...

This time, will NHS England be a full partner in the discussions and negotiations? Clearly, unles...

The noble Lord makes an excellent point. Clearly, as the budget holder, NHS England ultimately mu...

I am grateful to my noble friend for his helpful response setting out the Government’s continuing...

Moved by

Lord Lansley

5: After Clause 3, insert the following new Clause—

“Repo...

Amendment 5 refers back to the discussion we had on Amendment 3 about the duties that the Secreta...

I am grateful to my noble friend for his amendment and for raising the issue of reporting require...

I am grateful to my noble friend. I entirely take his point about the structure of reporting and ...

Moved by

Lord O'Shaughnessy

6: Clause 5, page 4, line 6, at end insert—

“( ) In...

My Lords, in Committee we debated the Government’s existing powers to control the prices of medic...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Government for taking some modest steps in the direction we were a...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Warner, for the lukewarm endorsement of an attempt to improve the Bi...

Moved by

Lord Lansley

7: After Clause 5, insert the following new Clause—

“Pric...

My Lords, I am grateful for the further opportunity to touch on an interesting issue which we dis...

My Lords, as I mentioned in the debate on Amendment 3, I support this amendment because it gives ...

My Lords, in Committee the noble Lord said that he did not think that biosimilars should be exclu...

My Lords, from time to time I have been approached by plasma companies and vaccine companies abou...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for his amendment and for providing the opportunity to...

My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, is he able to respond to the issue about biosimilars, ...

I thought I had, when I talked about taking into account the differing R&D costs, which I think w...

I am grateful to my noble friend and completely understand that at this stage it would be inappro...

Moved by

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

8: Clause 6, page 5, line 35, leave out “revenue or...

My Lords, I will speak very briefly to Amendment 8 and then allow the Minister to explain his ame...

My Lords, my name is on this amendment and I support it. I want to emphasise the point about the ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, for his amendments. I shall speak to govern...

My Lords, I reciprocate my noble friend’s thanks. In Committee he said he was going to think very...

My Lords, I thank the Minister. I am grateful for his amendments, because he clearly listened to ...

Moved by

Lord O'Shaughnessy

9: Clause 6, page 5, line 37, at end insert “(including, ...

Moved by

Lord O'Shaughnessy

11: Clause 6, page 5, leave out lines 46 to 48 and insert...

Moved by

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

12: Clause 6, in subsection (5), before “manufactur...

Moved by

Lord O'Shaughnessy

13: Clause 6, page 7, leave out line 22 and insert—