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Vital SignsWestminster health & care monitor
Live· data to 2026-07-23
TopicAdult social care & reform

Healthcare

  • Cancer
  • Mental health
  • Dementia
  • Diabetes
  • Maternity & neonatal
  • Long Covid
  • Heart disease & stroke
  • Respiratory (asthma/COPD)
  • Palliative & end of life care
  • Children's health
  • Rare diseases
  • NHS waiting lists
  • A&E & ambulance response
  • GP access
  • Dentistry access
  • NHS & care workforce/staffing
  • Health inequalities
  • Public health & prevention

Social care

  • Learning disability & autism
  • Elderly care & frailty
  • Adult social care & reform
  • Unpaid carers
  • Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
  • Care home closures & provider failure

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Vital Signs — Adult social care & reform

Mentions
1,121
Constituencies
237

Loudest voice: Baroness Merron

fewermore
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Power list · this Parliament
  1. 1Baroness Merron portraitBaroness MerronHouse of Lords · Labour113
  2. 2Stephen Kinnock portraitStephen KinnockAberafan Maesteg · Labour102
  3. 3Karin Smyth portrait

Now monitoring

Vital Signs — Adult social care & reform

Mentions
1,121
Constituencies
237

Loudest voice: Baroness Merron

fewermore
Check your MP’s record →
Power list · this Parliament
  1. 1Baroness Merron portraitBaroness MerronHouse of Lords · Labour113
  2. 2Stephen Kinnock portraitStephen KinnockAberafan Maesteg · Labour102
  3. 3Karin Smyth portraitKarin SmythBristol South · Labour99
  4. 4Wes Streeting portraitWes StreetingIlford North · Labour75
  5. 5Dr Caroline Johnson portraitDr Caroline JohnsonSleaford and North Hykeham · Conservative57
  6. 6Jim McMahon portraitJim McMahonOldham West, Chadderton and Royton · Labour (Co-op)57
  7. 7Alison McGovern portraitAlison McGovernBirkenhead · Labour42
  8. 8Justin Madders portraitJustin MaddersEllesmere Port and Bromborough · Labour39
  9. 9Helen Morgan portraitHelen MorganNorth Shropshire · Liberal Democrat39
  10. 10Anna Dixon portraitAnna DixonShipley · Labour36

Vital statistics

127

Mentions, last 8 weeks

▲ +189%

Weekly · last 26 weeks

Who is doing the talking

  • Labour56%
  • Conservative23%
Mentions over time
Karin SmythBristol South · Labour
99
  • 4Wes Streeting portraitWes StreetingIlford North · Labour75
  • 5Dr Caroline Johnson portraitDr Caroline JohnsonSleaford and North Hykeham · Conservative57
  • 6Jim McMahon portraitJim McMahonOldham West, Chadderton and Royton · Labour (Co-op)57
  • 7Alison McGovern portraitAlison McGovernBirkenhead · Labour42
  • 8Justin Madders portraitJustin MaddersEllesmere Port and Bromborough · Labour39
  • 9Helen Morgan portraitHelen MorganNorth Shropshire · Liberal Democrat39
  • 10Anna Dixon portraitAnna DixonShipley · Labour36
  • Mentions since the start of this Parliament

    Adult social care & reform · weekly · since 9 Jul 2024

    How the ranking works

    Vital Signs ranks MPs and members of the House of Lords by a weighted score of their Hansard contributions on Adult social care & reform— speeches, written questions and committee work — over the course of this Parliament (since 9 July 2024). Ministerial statements and debate speeches carry more weight than written answers; every contribution counts at full weight however early in the Parliament it was made. Contributions are matched to this topic on whole-word keyword matching, so “send” is never mistaken for SEND and “career” is never mistaken for care. Ministers and shadow ministers are labelled, because answering on a brief is their job rather than a choice to raise it; their scores are shown as-is, not adjusted. Use the search above the map to check where your own MP or peer stands.

    Debate analysis

    Since the start of this Parliament, 352 MPs and peers have raised Adult social care & reform in Hansard debates, written questions and committee work. Debate has intensified recently: the last two months produced 189% more mentions than the two months before that.

    The debate has been led most vocally by Baroness Merron (Labour, House of Lords), whose score of 112.5 is 1.1× that of the next most active contributor, Stephen Kinnock.

    By party, Labour leads with 56% of weighted activity, followed by Conservative (23%) and Liberal Democrat (16%). The House of Commons accounts for 75% of all weighted activity on Adult social care & reform.

    Liberal Democrat
    16%
    Commons
    75%
    Lords
    25%
    Voices
    352