Biography
Alison Hume has engaged extensively on health and social care through 40 debate speeches, with particularly strong focus on autism and suicide prevention, raising concerns about the three-fold elevated suicide risk among autistic people and calling for updated government strategies. She has also advocated prominently on NHS dentistry access in rural and coastal areas, using constituent casework to illustrate ten-year waiting lists, and contributed to debates on unpaid carers, stroke services, and disability support including wheelchair provision and educational facilities for students with special needs.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“Ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day, it is important that we recognise the heightened risk of suicide among autistic women and girls, who are too often overlooked and diagnosed too late. Autistic people are three times more likely to attempt, or die by, suicide than non-autistic people.”
Record by topic
- Learning disability & autism35th of 89960.0
- Mental health105th of 88033.0
- Public health & prevention125th of 68812.0
- Heart disease & stroke41st of 3989.0
- Assisted dying116th of 3716.0
- Dementia60th of 2516.0
- Dentistry access65th of 1946.0
- Palliative & end of life care213th of 5686.0
- Adult social care & reform99th of 3766.0
- Unpaid carers92nd of 2836.0
- Rare diseases80th of 2023.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)47th of 1423.0
- Maternity & neonatal238th of 4383.0
- NHS waiting lists323rd of 5343.0
- Diabetes68th of 1903.0
What they’ve said
“…Friend has made of the health risks posed by wildfire smoke? How is her Department preparing for these growing public health challenges?…”
Summer Health and Resilience · 2026-09-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Autistic people are three times as likely as non-autistic people to die by suicide or attempt suicide. The 2023 suicide prevention strategy for England was the first to recognise autistic people as being at a higher risk of suicide. Does my hon.”
World Suicide Prevention Day · 2026-09-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…we are finally seeing real funding, new incentives to recruit dentists and a genuine, sincere effort to rescue NHS dentistry. Last year, this Labour Government invested around £3.7 billion on primary care dentistry. We are starting to make a real difference to people’s lives. Take another of my constituents, Margaret.”
NHS Dentistry · 2026-06-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The two constituents I mentioned were told that they could be put on a waiting list. Unfortunately, the waiting lists were 10 years long; aged 80 and 77, they did not think it was likely that they would even get to the top. My Scarborough and Whitby constituency is a dental desert.”
NHS Dentistry · 2026-06-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Roger. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Rossendale and Darwen (Andy MacNae) for securing this important debate.”
Small Towns: Transport Links · 2026-06-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
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