Speeches and Debates

Pauline Latham leads a Parliamentary debate on the importance of securing a positive appraisal for the advanced melanoma treatment, Ipilimumab, a life prolonging drug.  read more »

Pauline Latham uses the Christmas Adjournment debate to highlight two constituent cases who are being failed by the East Midlands Cancer Drugs Fund which will not give them the drug Avastin on the NHS even though it is available to patients in other areas.  read more »

Pauline Latham asks about the planning of trade delegations to countries in Africa.  read more »

Pauline Latham OBE MP has this week spoken on the floor of the Chamber of the House of Commons in order to ask the Government about raising awareness of child sexual exploitation and alerting parents to signs for grooming by family and close friends in particular.  read more »

Pauline Latham questions the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills on promoting British exports, highlighting high-tech exporters in Derbyshire particularly.  read more »

Pauline Latham OBE MP, the Member of Parliament for Mid-Derbyshire has today stood up in the Chamber of the House of Commons in order to ask the Department for Energy and Climate Change what steps the Government will be taking in order to simplify energy tariffs.  read more »

Pauline Latham calls on African countries to learn from each other and highlights successful projects she has visited. She calls on the UK to step up investment in helping people to become self-sufficient as in the long term this is better than flying in emergency aid.  read more »

Pauline Latham calls on the Prime Minister to do more to boost jobs in Derby.  read more »

Pauline Latham has raised the issue of the east midlands cancer drugs fund and the difficulties constituents have faced in trying to access the life-prolonging drugs Avastin and Rituximab.  read more »

Pauline Latham calls on the Business Secretary to meet with members ofthe Derby and Derbyshire Rail Forum to discuss how to help those made redundant from Bombardier and how to ensure procurement rules benefit UK companies.  read more »