Medicines and Medical Devices Bill

My Lords, as noble Lords are well aware, First Do No Harm, the report of my review, was published...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Cumberlege, and to support wh...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, and support the nobl...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Cumberlege on the work that she and her able team h...

My Lords, when I was preparing for today’s debate and I saw where I was in the speaking list, I a...

My Lords, I will speak briefly in favour of this amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lad...

My Lords, Amendment 121 is another recommendation, as we have heard, from the Cumberlege review. ...

My Lords, I will be very brief, as it must be clear to the Minister that there is unanimity acros...

My Lords, again, I thank my noble friend and her team for their work to produce the report and to...

I do not believe that anyone wishes to come in after the Minister, so I call the noble Baroness, ...

I thank all those noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I am extremely grateful to them. I ...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 122, and we will not be interrupted by any Divi...

Moved by

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

122: After Clause 38, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, this is a probing amendment. Although I am a member of the GMC board, I make it clear t...

My Lords, it is hard to follow the very well-researched contribution to this whole issue from the...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 122 and 123, to which I attached my name. The first is in t...

I shall speak to the amendments in reverse order, starting with Amendment 123 in the name of my n...

The next speaker on the list, the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering, has withdrawn, so I...

My Lords, I am in the position that my noble friend Lord O’Shaughnessy was in earlier, as much of...

My Lords, I can be very brief. Amendment 122, in the names of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings ...

I think this has been one of those really rather good and unexpectedly deep House of Lords discus...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, and the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett ...

My Lords, I have received no requests to speak after the Minister, so I call the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, I think this has been an excellent debate. I fully accept, as my noble friend Lady Thor...

We now come to Amendment 126. I should inform the Committee that if this amendment is agreed to, ...

Moved by

Lord Bethell

126: Clause 41, page 24, line 9, leave out “consult such person...

Moved by

Lord Bethell

131: After Clause 41, insert the following new Clause—

“R...

Moved by

Lord Bethell

133: Page 24, line 36, leave out subsections (3) to (9) and ins...

Amendments 134 to 138 have been pre-empted.

We now come to Amendment 145. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to speak after the Ministe...

Moved by

Lord Sharkey

145: Clause 44, leave out Clause 44 and insert the following ne...

My Lords, this is a probing amendment; its purpose is to allow the Minister to explain why Clause...

The only question I want to ask is the question the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey, has just asked. Can...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, for her amendment, which would require the S...

My Lords, I have received no request to speak after the Minister, so I call Lord Sharkey—

I sent an email.

With apologies to the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, who does wish to speak after the Minister, I now ...

I thank the Deputy Chairman. I sent the email only about 30 seconds ago so I suppose, strictly sp...

My Lords, I will seek to provide an answer to my noble friend. Should it not be quite the right a...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, for his intervention. I will read Hansard carefully tomorro...

We now come to Amendment 146. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to speak after the Ministe...

Moved by

Baroness Thornton

146: Schedule 1, page 34, line 10, leave out “have regard ...

My Lords, we have reached the final amendment so I will be as brief as I can. The first thing I n...

The amendment proposed is to page 34, possibly corrected by the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, to...

My Lords, I hesitate to disagree with my noble friend, but I think it is on page 34—but then, of ...

My Lords, I speak very briefly to support this amendment. The noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, and ...

We all know that the words “have regard to” create no real obligations, whereas the words “act in...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, for her amendment, which is designed to requ...

My Lords, I think that I have received no requests to speak after the Minister so, hoping that I ...

First, I need to say that I do have an old version of the Bill which I picked up from my desk on ...

My Lords, that concludes the Committee’s proceedings on the Bill. I remind Members to wipe their ...