Paul Boateng MP regarding Benzodiazepine Tranquillisers
H O U S E OF C O M M O N S
LONDON SW1A 0AA
Shadow Secretary of State for Health
and Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside
Mr Barry Haslam
Oldham24 February 1994
Dear Mr Haslam
Thank you for your recent letter regarding Benzodiazepine Tranquillisers.
Dawn Primarolo and myself have been taking up cases and have advised on how best the groups involved might organise a parliamentary lobby and keep attention on these issues.
We have also tried to assist through both Parliamentary Questions and raising the matter on the floor of the House, in pushing the Government to accept its own responsibilities and to take action now to ensure that it does not happen again.
This is something we will be returning to both in the House and in terms of our own future policy development.
I am passing your letter to Paul Boateng who, as the legal affairs spokesman, has specific responsibility for the litigation side of what is a national scandal.
With all good wishes
David Blunkett MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Health
H O U S E OF C O M M O N S
LONDON SW1A 0AAPAUL BOATENG MP Mr Barry Haslam
Oldham25 April 1994
Dear Mr Haslam
Your letter to David Blunkett has been passed to me. The case of the Ativan victims is one on which I have been very active in recent months. I am therefore, of course, always glad to receive any research papers to supplement the large number of such documents that I have in my possession. I thank you for those which you have sent to me thus far and would be grateful for anything further.
Clearly, the aim of all involved in this sorry affair is the provision of justice to the victims of these drugs.
Yours sincerely,
Paul Boateng MP
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