George Freeman - Contributions

George Freeman

Conservative
Commons, Mid Norfolk (2010 - present)

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Debate on the Address

Commons Chamber on 21 June 201721/06/2017

Since the House prorogued, the nation has experienced some deeply shocking events: the appalling terrorist atrocities in London and Manchester, and the terrible tragedy at Grenfell Tower. I want to take this opportunity to send my condolences to all who w...

Debate on the Address

Commons Chamber on 21 June 201721/06/2017

My hon. Friend referred to our stunning economic success in Europe. How much of that inward investment does he think can be attributed to the fact that we are a gateway to the European market?

Article 50

Commons Chamber on 29 March 201729/03/2017

May I congratulate the Prime Minister on the cool, constructive clarity and conviction that she has brought to this momentous period in British politics, and on her commitment today to negotiate on behalf of everyone in this country—the 48% as well as the...

London Attacks

Commons Chamber on 23 March 201723/03/2017

I thank the Prime Minister for the tone with which she has reacted. She has genuinely spoken for the nation in this moment. Yesterday, many of us from the House were gathered in Westminster Abbey, in lockdown. In a stunning moment, people from left and ri...

European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill

Commons Chamber on 31 January 201731/01/2017

I think the people of this country, in the way they have rewarded our Prime Minister with a huge lead in the opinion polls, know exactly the answer to that question. We need a Brexit that works for the UK, the EU and the USA, because the west is facin...

European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill

Commons Chamber on 31 January 201731/01/2017

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Our Prime Minister stepped in to lead a Government committed to delivering Brexit, but who would tackle the domestic policy challenges that fuelled much of the wider disillusionment that the vote also signified. It is...

European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill

Commons Chamber on 31 January 201731/01/2017

The truth is that the real challenge now falls to our new Prime Minister, who stepped in—

European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill

Commons Chamber on 31 January 201731/01/2017

I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for raising that point. One of the most interesting aspects of the Supreme Court judgment—the media have not picked it up—is that Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales were and are bound by the vote of this s...

European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill

Commons Chamber on 31 January 201731/01/2017

I thank my hon. Friend for that gracious intervention. Having won sovereignty back for this House, we must use it. We must show that the House is worthy of that sovereignty and capable of acting in the interests of all the people we serve. Churchill said...

European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill

Commons Chamber on 31 January 201731/01/2017

Last year, as Minister for Life Sciences, I voted for the EU referendum on the basis that I would be bound by the result. Despite watching over many years with a heaviness of heart the growing failure of the EU to create an entrepreneurial economy, on ba...

Broadband Universal Service Obligation

Commons Chamber on 15 December 201615/12/2016

I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way; it gives me the chance to thank him sincerely on behalf of my constituents, because my constituency has gone from 25% to 70% fast broadband. Does he agree that we may need creative ways of ensuring that the 5%...

Engagements

Commons Chamber on 26 October 201626/10/2016

Every year, hundreds of people are diagnosed with, suffer and usually die prematurely from rare diseases such as cystic fibrosis and rare cancers, for which there has been no treatment, or for which the latest drugs are prohibitively expensive. This week...

Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis

Westminster Hall on 13 July 201613/07/2016

Many of these conditions have been known about for years, but it is only now that we are really beginning, through genomics and infomatics, to get a handle on how we might track, spot earlier and use big data to analyse cause and effect and develop new me...

Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis

Westminster Hall on 13 July 201613/07/2016

The right hon. Lady read my mind. I do not have that information at my fingertips but I have already asked that question and I will happily ask Genomics England to ensure that she and I have that answer. I will touch on the point she made about awareness...

Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis

Westminster Hall on 13 July 201613/07/2016

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Gillan, not least because on other occasions you have been a doughty champion of campaigns on rare diseases. It is also a pleasure to respond to the debate. I congratulate the right hon. Member for Ba...

Blood Cancers

Westminster Hall on 7 July 201607/07/2016

That was achieved in an extraordinary manoeuvre, which was so seamless I did not even notice it happening over my left shoulder. This summer, officials in the Department will work with the accelerated access review team and NHS England to try to strike...

Blood Cancers

Westminster Hall on 7 July 201607/07/2016

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for reading my mind—not for the first time—because the next paragraph in my speech is about the cancer drugs fund and the accelerated access review. His intervention gives me a moment to highlight some of the important...

Blood Cancers

Westminster Hall on 7 July 201607/07/2016

I completely agree with my hon. Friend. As she has made clear, and as I repeated earlier, it is tricky because the symptoms are not always straightforward or simple. It is often not a lump or something that is easily detectable, and the symptoms can easil...

Blood Cancers

Westminster Hall on 7 July 201607/07/2016

The hon. Lady makes an excellent point. I thank her for it and endorse her sentiments. In several research areas important initiatives have been taken by black and minority ethnic and other communities with particular genetic predispositions. It is import...

Blood Cancers

Westminster Hall on 7 July 201607/07/2016

It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Walker. I thank and congratulate the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) and my hon. Friend the Member for Crawley (Henry Smith) on setting up the all-party parliamentary group and initiati...

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