Dame Siobhain McDonagh

Dame Siobhain McDonagh

Dame Siobhain McDonagh MP

Labour
House of CommonsActive

Member since 3 July 2024

Recent Debate Contributions

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Rare Cancers Bill

10/07/2025Commons

3 contributions
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...
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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

09/07/2025Commons

1 contribution
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...
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Rare Cancers Bill

01/07/2025Commons

1 contribution
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 ...
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English Wine Production

24/06/2025Commons

1 contribution
I think the hon. Member has finished speaking. The hon. Member for Winchester might want to intervene on the Minister at an appropriate time.
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GP Funding: South-west England

24/06/2025Commons

2 contributions
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...
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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 ...
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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...
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Will my hon. Friend give way?
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Marriage between First Cousins

17/06/2025Commons

1 contribution
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 ...
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Future of the Gas Grid

17/06/2025Commons

1 contribution
Don’t look at me or you will find that your speech is very short.
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4 contributions
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...
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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

11/06/2025Commons

3 contributions
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.
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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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