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Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review
I welcome today the announcement by the Prime Minister, and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, that there will be a Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review – focussing on the pregnancy test drug Primodos, the use of vaginal mesh and the anti-epilepsy drug Sodium Valproate.
George Freeman urges Government to compromise with backbench MPs on Henry VIII powers
George Freeman calls on the Government to listen to backbench MPs and explain why the so-called Henry VIII powers - legislative changes deemed not to need Parliamentary scrutiny or vote - are needed when the whole point of Brexit is to bring back democracy to the UK Parliament.