Speeches by Duffield.

“It is always a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Mundell. First, I should acknowledge that, having been steeped in this issue for many years, I know James Esses, the therapist who organised this petition. He, the formidable Keira Bell and the Bayswater Support Group have managed to halt this trial, so no child…”

“I thank the Secretary of State and his team for their engagement with this awful situation in Canterbury. As he can imagine, all in my constituency have been devastated by the tragic death of Juliette Kenny and another student from this cruel disease, and I thank my constituency neighbour, the hon. Member for Faversham…”

“Moving on to counselling and informed consent, Laura-Rose, in your written evidence to us you state that you think there should be a minimum of three counselling sessions prior to donation and two prior to egg freezing. Can you just explain a bit more about your thinking on that?”

“That was a really good answer. Do you agree with campaign groups like Surrogacy Concern and Stop Surrogacy Now UK that are saying that there should be somebody who is completely independent of the clinics and the banks who has training in genetic counselling and those particular things that you just mentioned?”

“Dr Diane, you were nodding away, so I guess you agree with all that. What has your research found in relation to the need for counselling before and after egg donation and freezing, and what type is needed? Do you link that with the idea of tracking those women through their experience?”

“5. What assessment she has made of the adequacy of SEND provision in Kent.”

“I recently hosted a constituency SEND roundtable with education leaders and officials from the Department, where teachers stressed yet again that years of underfunding and diminished support services had left schools on their knees, often unable to meet the needs of the most vulnerable children. Unfortunately, the Gove…”

“We covered a little about interventions in Christine’s last question, and Debbie was saying she does not necessarily think there are any. Tara and Jenny, do you think there should be interventions to accelerate growth in the number of female angel investors? What would that look like? How would it help reach the 30% ta…”

“Yes, I know that one. Thank you very much. That is really interesting. Tara, how would you specifically like more invested in those underrepresented regions? I know that is your area.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Desmond. I thank the hon. Member for Arbroath and Broughty Ferry (Stephen Gethins) for securing this debate. Almost a decade since we held that fateful referendum, let us look back and count the many and varied so-called “Brexit benefits” that some promised us. As we …”

“Do you both agree that the process of informed consent needs to be strengthened, and that goes back to data?”

“Thank you; that is really interesting. Helen, do you want to come in on that one?”

“That is another thing we need to strengthen. You would be astonished: I have done a lot of work on women’s health, and no area of women’s health—birth trauma included—has aftercare or follow-ups. I have done this for nine years, and it is a recurring theme. Do we know enough about the experiences of women who go on to …”

“We have obviously touched on this in terms of advertising and things and I know we are short of time, but is there enough informed consent about things like ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome? Could you both briefly say how many women you think are at risk of that? How high is that in people who donate?”

“12. What recent progress she has made on publishing guidance for gender-questioning children in schools.”

“The Secretary of State told the House that the guidance for schools would be published by the end of 2025, yet here we still are without the guidance anywhere to be seen. There is immense pressure on schools, colleges, children’s homes and other settings to socially transition children, often irrespective of parents’ w…”

“3. What discussions he has had with King’s College London on the compliance of the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial with the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004.”

“The United States Department of Health and Human Services’ peer-reviewed report found that harms from paediatric medical transition are significant, long term and too often ignored and inadequately tracked, as testified by Keira Bell, who is here in Parliament today. What is the Government’s rationale behind medicalisi…”

“8. What steps his Department is taking to help prevent job seekers and welfare claimants being subject to commercial sexual exploitation.”

“Commercial sexual exploitation is the exchange of money, goods or services in return for sex acts. It is a form of violence against women. Inquiries by the all-party parliamentary group on commercial sexual exploitation have revealed that it is now taking place on an industrial scale. With the growth and mainstreaming …”