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Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 22 October 2015

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, Risk Assessment and Risk Planning Committee (15 Oct 2020 to 24 Nov 2021)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care ( 8 Jan 2018 to 31 Dec 2018)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (21 Dec 2016 to 8 Jan 2018)
• Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) (21 Dec 2016 to 20 Jun 2017)

Recent appearances

• COVID-19 Vaccine Certification - Question 4 Mar 2021

  My Lords, last month the Ada Lovelace Institute published a report on the potential of vaccine passports. Among other recommendations, it called for the Government to engage with the public on this topic in order to build trust and legitimacy and also to understand what trade-offs the public are willing to make. What plans do the Government, and the review in particular, have to engage with...

• Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review: Sodium Valproate - Question 2 Mar 2021

  To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the report by the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review First Do No Harm, published on 8 July 2020, what plans they have to bring forward a redress scheme for women and families who have been harmed by sodium valproate.

• Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review: Sodium Valproate - Question 2 Mar 2021

  I am grateful to my noble friend for his Answer. Since my noble friend Lady Cumberlege published her landmark review, another 150 babies have been born suffering harm from in utero exposure to sodium valproate, to add to the 18,000 children—18,000, my Lords—who have been harmed in this way since the 1970s. These children belong to families whose lives have been turned upside down, and who...

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