Lord Irvine of Lairg: ...Gulf War and the sheep farmers' multi-party actions were originally, as has been noted, handled by Dawburns, a Norfolk firm. That firm was also handling a third multi-party action involving alleged damage caused by a vaccine. The facts of what happened are these. In 1998, the team handling the three multi-party actions moved from Dawburns to the London firm, Hodge Jones & Allen. The...
Ian Stewart: My right hon. Friend will be aware that the Government are carrying out a review of the vaccine damage payment scheme 1979. Can she make time available for an early debate on this important issue, so that the scheme's inadequacy can be fully debated?
Lord McNally: ...that legislation should not seek to make outlaws of individual consumers, or for that matter innocent landowners. But we must not shut our eyes to large-scale organised crime, which is doing great damage to our creative industries. What is the point of having ideas, if some crook can just wait for a designer or entrepreneur to put in all the work and investment and then copy what people do...
Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior: ...bred for that purpose as a natural part of plant breeding or plants that are genetically modified to produce scarce molecules. For example, as has been mentioned by the noble Lord, Lord Williamson, vaccines requiring the insertion of part of a pathogenic genome into a plant have produced some amazing results in vaccines. I give just one example of where that is leading, this being the...
Mary Scanlon: ...nurses for granted." With funding so tight, the training budget is often the first to be cut, affecting health and safety, the updating of skills and career development. With regard to the flu vaccine, there is no consistent approach throughout Scotland. Grampian Health Board managed the flu vaccination programme by obtaining a list from GPs of all those at risk, writing to them, inviting...
Mr David Chidgey: The Leader of the House may be aware that parents of vaccine-damaged children came to the House yesterday to make representations to Members about their financial plight. She may recall that, under the last Labour Administration, the Vaccine Damage Act 1979 was passed, providing for compensation for parents of children who had suffered 80 per cent. brain damage or more. I am sure that she...
Susan Deacon: I am grateful to have the opportunity to inform Parliament of the arrangements in Scotland for the introduction of a new vaccine to protect our children against meningitis C. The new vaccine programme is good news for parents and children across Scotland and is a huge step towards conquering one strain of a potentially life-threatening infection. Meningitis, one form of meningococcal...
David Maclean: ...of retrospective legislation. I had the privilege of studying the list as well, but I could not find any examples relating to individuals. The examples related to teachers' pay and conditions, vaccine-damaged children and London Regional Transport—I could not find one case of retrospective legislation dealing with a single individual.
John Denham: ...to the House. It is a complex and emotive subject, and my hon. Friend spoke clearly and with great sensitivity. I know that the matter is of considerable interest and that an all-party group on vaccine damage has recently been formed. I acknowledge the work of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Dudley, North (Mr. Cranston)—now the Solicitor-General—who has been active on the...
Nick Brown: ...of the scheme proposed by Professor Kennedy is that the animal must be inside the European Union or one of the islands referred to in the scheme for at least six months. It will have to have been vaccinated, the effectiveness of the vaccine will have to have been checked, and the animal will have to be deloused 24 hours before coming in, so that parasites that might carry rabies or other...
That the draft Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 1998, which was laid before this House on 8th June, be approved.
Mr Keith Bradley: ...it offers clear benefits for the development of social security law. Amendments Nos. 26, 114 and 123 are technical. They ensure that the Bill contains provisions for decisions on child support and vaccine damage payments to be final, and for findings of fact contributing to decisions on child support and vaccine damage to be made conclusive by regulations for the purposes of further such...
Mr Keith Bradley: These technical amendments relate to the vaccine damage payments scheme. I hope that hon. Members will allow me to present them as a set rather than individually. Amendment No. 59 is a minor amendment to clause 45. Clause 45 inserts a new section 3A into the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979. In effect, it replaces section 5, which deals with reconsideration of the Secretary of State's...
Harriet Harman: .... We do not need five: we need only one, but we have the social security appeal tribunal, the child support appeal tribunal, the medical appeal tribunal, the disability appeal tribunal and the vaccine damage tribunal. They are held in the same rooms in the same building, but they wear different hats. We want to replace those five separate tribunal jurisdictions with a single independent...
Mr Llew Smith: ...uncovered highlighting the potential implications of the rising incidence of autism and Crohn's disease in children, and the uptake of the mumps, measles and rubella and the measles and rubella vaccines. Indeed, the evidence shows that it is the cocktail of vaccinations that is likely to be the cause of the unexpected problem. In the past two years, I have tabled dozens of questions and...
...Mr. Keith Bradley and Mr. John Denham, presented a Bill to make provision as to the making of decisions and the determination of appeals under enactments relating to social security, child support, vaccine damage payments and war pensions; to make further provision with respect to social security; and for connected purposes: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a...
Mr Harry Barnes: ...work load of the Chesterfield tribunal suite. Five types of case are heard: appeals on social security matters, appeals on disability living allowance and so on, child support appeals, vaccine damage appeals and medical appeals. Sixty per cent. of the Chesterfield tribunal suite's cases are social security appeals, 20 per cent. are disability appeals and 20 per cent. cover the other three...
Richard Burden: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for a review of the operation of, and make amendments to, the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979. I, too, welcome my hon. Friend the Member for South-East Staffordshire (Mr. Jenkins). I am grateful for this opportunity to bring to the House's attention injustices being created by the operation of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act...
Mr. Richard Burden accordingly presented a Bill to provide for a review of the operation of, and make amendments to, the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 10 May and to be printed. [Bill 104.]
Mr James Spicer: ...that any other person who attended them did not do likewise—with the certainty that badgers are a cause of bovine TB. All too often, people say, "We must preserve every badger, so we must have a vaccine." It is my understanding, however, that we shall not have an effective vaccine before the year 2005, at the earliest, and that it is more likely to be 2010—and then only if enormous...