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Health Bill [ Lords] (Programme) (No. 2): Clause 22 — Power to prohibit or restrict sales from vending machines (10 Nov 2009)

John Pugh: We have no difficulty at all with these consequential amendments.

[John Cummings in the Chair] — Thalidomide (4 Nov 2009)

John Pugh: Will the Minister give way?

[John Cummings in the Chair] — Thalidomide (4 Nov 2009)

John Pugh: Earlier, the Minister referred to changing health needs. One limitation of an independent review is that we will only capture the needs at a particular time. I sense that many people are looking for a mechanism that would give them security for the future, whatever their needs. Some of those needs are imponderable, and we cannot work them out at the moment because we have never had...

[John Cummings in the Chair] — Thalidomide (4 Nov 2009)

John Pugh: On a similar point, under the Minister's scheme, if a PCT in the pilot has thalidomide victims who need to be funded via direct payments, the funding presumably will come from additional resources given by the Government for running the pilot, not from existing PCT resources which, as we all know, are stretched right across the country. Presumably the funding will not come from the existing...

[John Cummings in the Chair] — Thalidomide (4 Nov 2009)

John Pugh: I thank the hon. Member for Staffordshire, Moorlands (Charlotte Atkins) for precipitating the debate and introducing it in such an informed and balanced way. I shall begin with a resumé of what I believe has been established and what I think we all agree on. There is little doubt that thalidomide is a profoundly disabling condition. It is diverse in its outcome and extent—a point...

[John Cummings in the Chair] — Thalidomide (4 Nov 2009)

John Pugh: We are establishing a reasonable case to suggest that doctors in the 1950s were fairly ignorant of drugs such as those that we are talking about. There might be an excuse for doctors, but was there an excuse for the Department of Health and those advising it being equally ignorant?

Written Answers — Health: Thalidomide (28 Oct 2009)

John Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department has funded research into the potential effectiveness of the use of Thalidomide in the treatment of certain illnesses.

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

John Pugh: If my hon. Friend will allow me, I should say that the Minister has not answered the question from our hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable). The Minister offers what he calls a swifter and better way, but, if it is, why has he not convinced one single policyholder—they are not stupid—that that is the case?

Local Health Services and Democratic Involvement (21 Oct 2009) has video

John Pugh: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require Primary Care Trusts to obtain prior approval for their spending plans; to require Primary Care Trusts to present an annual spending plan to certain local authorities for approval; to provide resolution arrangements in the event of Primary Care Trusts failing to secure the consent of the relevant local authority; and for...

[Mr. Bill Olner in the Chair] — Wardens (Sheltered Housing) (20 Oct 2009)

John Pugh: My hon. Friend is making an excellent point about the specific nature of consultation and how it can be tailored to individual circumstances. One consultation pattern is for large housing associations to consult at national level and ignore the variants in establishments across the country. In such a situation, consultation has taken place, but it is not the right kind of...

[Mr. Bill Olner in the Chair] — Wardens (Sheltered Housing) (20 Oct 2009)

John Pugh: I congratulate the hon. and learned Member for Torridge and West Devon (Mr. Cox) on how thoroughly and exhaustively he introduced this topic. I will explain briefly, widening the debate a little, why I am here. I picked up a lot of additional casework recently relating to tenancy and leasehold issues, many of which centred on service charges and quite a few of which concerned the role of...

City of London (14 Oct 2009)

John Pugh: I congratulate the hon. Member for Selby (Mr. Grogan) on securing the debate and keeping us on our toes by leaving us marginally uncertain as to its exact title of the debate. I thank him, too, for sharing his 10-point plan with us. Why he is not Chancellor of the Exchequer I do not know. I assume it is because he is far too cheerful. Down this end of the Chamber, we have a caucus of...

City of London (14 Oct 2009)

John Pugh: The hon. Gentleman is putting forward the hypothesis that regulation invariably leads to capital flight. In a sense, that is making the case for no regulation whatever. However, there is clearly such a thing as a proper degree of regulation, which attracts capital; regulation is not necessarily negative in its effect on markets.

City of London (14 Oct 2009)

John Pugh: It is probably worth observing also that in the City there are a number of very highly paid organisations that specialise in telling other people how to avoid paying tax.