Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Sarah Green (Liberal Democrat), on Monday, 5 September 2022, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 12 members in total.

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Financial redress for victims of surgical mesh, sodium valproate and hormone pregnancy tests

That this House regrets the avoidable harm caused by the use of surgical mesh, Primodos and Sodium Valproate; acknowledges the need to support the hundreds of victims in the UK suffering as a result of these interventions; welcomes the recommendations made by Baroness Cumberlege in her 2020 report on the IMMDS Review; notes that recommendation 4 of this report calls for the establishment of separate schemes to meet the costs of additional care and support to those who have suffered avoidable harm; regrets that in the two years since the report's publication, the Government has refused to accept this recommendation; further regrets the suggestion that victims should pursue legal routes to compensation, which fails to recognise the adversarial nature and inaccessibility of litigation; and calls on the Government to establish separate schemes to provide financial redress to the victims of surgical mesh, sodium valproate and hormone pregnancy tests, as recommended by the Cumberlege report.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

349 

Session

2022-23

Other sponsors

John McDonnell

Jonathan Edwards

Jim Shannon

Claire Hanna

Kim Johnson

Subjects

Compensation Pregnancy tests Sodium valproate Surgical mesh implants

Link

View this Early day motion on edm.parliament.uk