Dame Siobhain McDonagh
Dame Siobhain McDonagh MP
Labour
•House of Commons•ActiveMember since 3 July 2024
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Rare Cancers Bill
10/07/2025 • Commons
Does my hon. Friend agree that the Bill’s mechanism relating to orphan drugs is essential? Unless we can get the pharmaceutical industry to find it in...
I do not want to detain the House too long. I just want to put on record my admiration for my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh South West (Dr Arth...
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Children’s Health
09/07/2025 • Commons
When we talk about children’s health, we often think about the start of life—safe births, vaccinations and early years support—but we also need to tal...
Rare Cancers Bill
01/07/2025 • Commons
Does the Minister agree that keeping a list of people with rare cancers is only any use as long as there are some drug trials? Last night we launched ...
English Wine Production
24/06/2025 • Commons
I think the hon. Member has finished speaking. The hon. Member for Winchester might want to intervene on the Minister at an appropriate time.
GP Funding: South-west England
24/06/2025 • Commons
I respectfully say to Members that, while I do not have the power to stop interventions from people who turn up 45 minutes, an hour, or an hour and th...
Order. I remind Members to bob if they wish to be called. I ask for some self-restraint, with speeches restricted to six or seven minutes, so that we ...
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
19/06/2025 • Commons
Next Tuesday will be the second anniversary of my sister’s death. Three weeks prior to her death, we took her to hospital because she had a blood infe...
Will my hon. Friend give way?
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Marriage between First Cousins
17/06/2025 • Commons
I will call Richard Holden to move the motion. I will then call the Minister to respond. I remind other Members that they may make a speech only with ...
Future of the Gas Grid
17/06/2025 • Commons
Don’t look at me or you will find that your speech is very short.
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
12/06/2025 • Commons
Its potential is to alter everything in a very undemocratic manner. In this very Chamber, Nye Bevan told us that the NHS would
“lift the shadow fro...
The power to alter the intentions, as mentioned by my hon. Friend, was not in the Bill we voted for in November. That is why I have tabled my amendmen...
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Humanist Marriage
11/06/2025 • Commons
Just to warn the Front Benchers, I am going to reduce your time to nine minutes in order to keep the time limit for Back Benchers at four minutes.
I am afraid that I will now impose a four-minute limit on speeches. I apologise to people for coughing, and will endeavour not to. Please do not be to...
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