Yasmin Qureshi: I beg to move, That this House has considered the Expert Working Group report on hormone pregnancy tests. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I am also pleased that the Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the hon. Member for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price), is here to respond to this debate. To establish the context of the debate, I will begin by...
Yasmin Qureshi: I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention and I absolutely agree with him; he can probably hear in my voice some of my frustration about the fact that this issue has not been grasped by Ministers and dealt with. In recent months, the all-party parliamentary group on hormone pregnancy tests, of which I am the chair, has written to Ministers several times to ask for meetings so that we can...
Yasmin Qureshi: My hon. Friend is absolutely right and I come on to explain how other bodies use meta-analysis to carry out assessment. Does the Minister understand why we are asking why the data was not even properly assessed? When I tabled a parliamentary question to inquire whether the meta-analysis of the studies had been carried out, I was told that it had not. Can the Minister explain why not? One of...
Yasmin Qureshi: I thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention, and I absolutely agree with him. He may have realised what the ending of my speech was going to be, because that was a point I was going to make. Not once did the expert working group mention the historical evidence in its review; not once did it look at those documents and acknowledge that there are questions to be answered. Primodos has...
Yasmin Qureshi: Since 2016, payments to consultancies by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service have shot up from £3 million to £20 million. The Government appear to think that expensive private consultants are the solution to all their problems, even in the face of spiralling costs. Does the Minister really believe that the way to increase access to justice is to hand over yet more public money to...
Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2019 to Question 239926 on Pregnancy Tests, for what reason previous studies were not considered robust; and what the extensive limitations were.
Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the criteria were for selecting members of the Expert Working Group for Hormone Pregnancy Tests.
Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the revised completion date of the courts reform programme on (a) the cost of the programme and (b) the predicted date when the cumulative benefits of the programme are expected to be greater than the cumulative costs.
Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 29 March 2019 to Question 235313 on Courts: Telephone Services, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of recent reports that the face-to-face assisted digital support scheme has helped just 14 people since the introduction of that scheme; and what steps he is taking to increase uptake of that scheme.
Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Buzzed article entitled The Ministry Of Justice Has Been Accused Of Sitting On Evidence That Undermines Its Drive To Close Courts, published on 18 March 2019, if he will make an assessment of the accuracy of reports in that article that the Government chose not to publish data which suggested that people had a more positive...
Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much is projected to be spent from the public purse on the courts reform programme in each financial year between April 2019 and 2025.
Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps are being taken to ensure that those with (a) limited digital capability or (b) disabilities are not negatively affected by the increased use of video court hearings.
Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether a meta-analysis was carried out as part of the Commission on Human Medicines' Expert Working Group review into Hormone Pregnancy Tests.
Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has for peer review the report of the Commission on Human Medicines Expert Working Group on Hormone Pregnancy Tests.
Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been spent from the public purse on the courts reform programme in each financial year since 2014.
Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the £1 billion budget of the courts reform program has been revised.
Yasmin Qureshi: I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way, but does he not agree that words such as “humiliation”, “submission”, “begging”, “traitors”, “hang them” and “violence” are not appropriate in these types of debate?
Yasmin Qureshi: Does the hon. Lady agree that the rhetoric used by the media and, sadly, sometimes by politicians—including the man who occupies the White House—is built on racial superiority? As the footballer John Barnes said recently, the basis of racial discrimination is the hundreds of years of—I hope people will forgive me for saying this —European white superiority.
Yasmin Qureshi: It pains me to say that in 2011, in a speech that I made during a debate about the military intervention in Libya, I predicted everything that has been happening there since that intervention. Members are welcome to read the speech in Hansard. It is also disturbing—and has been confirmed by a report from the Foreign Affairs Committee—that there was no immediate humanitarian need requiring...