Siobhain McDonagh MP: speeches

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7 Oct 2024 · NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation · Hansard source
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Members from across the House will have their own experience of the NHS, but in my case, after caring for my late sister Margaret, who was diagnosed with a glioblastoma brain tumour in 2021, I can say with regret that the NHS failed her, forcing us to travel to Germany when she was at her sickest in order to find some treatment that might extend her life. In his summary letter published before the report, Lord Darzi told us that he was “shocked” by what he had found, but the 3,200 people who are diagnosed with a glioblastoma brain tumour every year are not shocked. They know just how bad things are. The report has told us that the UK has higher cancer death rates than our European neighbours. For patients with a glioblastoma brain tumour, that is news to no one. In comparison to 33 similar countries, the UK ranks 25th for five-year survival rates. Life expectancy for somebody diagnosed with a glioblastoma is just nine months. There has not been a new treatment in the NHS for more than 30 years, and the diagnosis is still a death sentence. In 2018, after Tessa Jowell sadly passed away with a glioblastoma, £40 million of ringfenced Government funding was promised for brain tumour research. Of that £40 million, just £11.3 million has been spent. Six years on, and the National Institute for Health and Care Research cannot even get the money out of the door. That is a real failure of Government. In June 2024, just before the election, a roundtable discussed how to spend £15 million of this money, and I have been trying to find out what it decided. Last week, I received a letter from Professor Lucy Chappell, the NIHR’s chief scientific adviser. Disturbingly, she told me that the NIHR largely funds research based on the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality, but it does not “allocate funding for specific disease areas.” The pharmaceutical industry does not work on glioblastoma. If the NHS also does not, who will? Do we keep on baking cakes?
7 Oct 2024 · Hamas Attacks: First Anniversary · Hansard source
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I thank my hon. Friend for being so generous with his time in this really important Adjournment debate. I, too, had the opportunity to meet Mandy Damari, who wanted our Government to acknowledge that her daughter Emily is a British citizen and requires the support of her Government to do everything they can to allow for her release as a hostage.
12 Sept 2024 · Business of the House · Hansard source
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Will the Leader of the House find time for a debate on glioblastoma drug treatments? As Mr Speaker and she will know, 3,200 people each year are diagnosed with this death sentence. It is the largest killer of the under-40s, and life expectancy at five years is just 5%. Without Government intervention in the pharmaceutical industry and the NHS, there will be no improvement for another 40 years, and we will continue to see the same number of people traumatised, dead and scandalised.
11 Sept 2024 · Rural Bus Services · Hansard source
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Order. Could I ask the Member to stand?
11 Sept 2024 · Rural Bus Services · Hansard source
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I will call Sarah Dyke to move the motion, and I will then call the Minister to respond. As is the convention for 30-minute debates, there will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up.
11 Sept 2024 · Rural Bus Services · Hansard source
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Order. The hon. Member needs to sit down. This issue is clearly of much concern in many constituencies across the country. It could be appropriate for a group of Members to get together and submit an application for a 60 or 90-minute debate in Westminster Hall, which would give Members the opportunity to make their cases and the Minister enough time to respond to their concerns. I am not formally requiring that of anybody, but I suggest that it might be a useful mechanism. Question put and agreed to.
11 Sept 2024 · Planning Policy: Traveller Sites · Hansard source
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I call Kevin Hollinrake to wind up.
23 Jul 2024 · Commercial Sexual Exploitation · Hansard source
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Order. I ask that Members leave the Chamber quietly, out of respect for the Adjournment debate.
23 Jul 2024 · Immigration and Home Affairs · Hansard source
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Order. I draw the hon. Member’s attention to the fact that when we use the word “you” in this House, we are referring to the Chair.
23 Jul 2024 · Immigration and Home Affairs · Hansard source
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I call Helena Dollimore to make her maiden speech.
23 Jul 2024 · Immigration and Home Affairs · Hansard source
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I call Paul Kohler to make his maiden speech.
23 Jul 2024 · Immigration and Home Affairs · Hansard source
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Thank you. I apologise to all hon. Members who have not been called to speak today, but we must now start the wind-ups. I call the shadow Minister.
23 Jul 2024 · Immigration and Home Affairs · Hansard source
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I call Ben Coleman to make his maiden speech.
23 Jul 2024 · Immigration and Home Affairs · Hansard source
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I call Frank McNally to make his maiden speech.
22 Jul 2024 · CrowdStrike: IT Outage · Hansard source
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I cannot be the only Member who thinks how proud Mr and Mrs Reeves must be today.
22 Jul 2024 · Economy, Welfare and Public Services · Hansard source
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Order. Could we show respect and listen to the Member’s speech?
22 Jul 2024 · Economy, Welfare and Public Services · Hansard source
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I call Miatta Fahnbulleh to make her maiden speech.
22 Jul 2024 · Economy, Welfare and Public Services · Hansard source
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The dilemma we face is self-evident: many hon. and right hon. Members want to speak, and we will do all we can to get in as many people as possible. Unfortunately, there will now be a five-minute limit on speeches. The clock will not be used for maiden speeches, but we ask Members to keep an eye on the time.
22 Jul 2024 · Economy, Welfare and Public Services · Hansard source
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I call Bradley Thomas to make his maiden speech.
22 Jul 2024 · Economy, Welfare and Public Services · Hansard source
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I call Andrew Lewin to make his maiden speech.
22 Jul 2024 · Economy, Welfare and Public Services · Hansard source
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Order. Let me just give the House a reminder—not that the next Member I will call needs this reminder—that for those of us who could be described as veteran Members, it is the custom to praise maiden speeches.
22 Jul 2024 · Economy, Welfare and Public Services · Hansard source
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Order. Could I just urge the House to think about interventions? There is a very long list of Members who want to speak and lots of people who want to make their maiden speech, and it would be great if they could all get in.
22 Jul 2024 · Economy, Welfare and Public Services · Hansard source
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I call Sarah Sackman to make her maiden speech.
22 Jul 2024 · Economy, Welfare and Public Services · Hansard source
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I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.
22 Jul 2024 · Economy, Welfare and Public Services · Hansard source
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I inform the House that Mr Speaker has selected amendment (h), tabled by the Leader of the Opposition.

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