Biography
Andrew Griffith has engaged on the specified health and social care topics through 13 debate speeches, with notable contributions touching on mental health (discussing employment as part of welfare reform and citing the Mayfield report), maternity rights (critiquing the Employment Rights Bill's approach), and dementia (referencing a local charity's financial difficulties following the Labour Budget). His engagement has primarily focused on these issues within broader debates about employment legislation, government spending, and economic policy rather than as standalone health topics.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…urance net, would never have made the decision to reduce the threshold from £9,100 to £5,000, encompassing at a stroke hundreds and thousands more employees. What do businesses do when faced with the anaemic top-line growth in the economy and the pressure on consumer household spending? They have to sit down on a Sunda…”
Record by topic
- Learning disability & autism307th of 89912.0
- Maternity & neonatal101st of 4389.0
- Heart disease & stroke75th of 3986.0
- Dementia108th of 2513.0
- Mental health654th of 8803.0
- Palliative & end of life care329th of 5683.0
What they’ve said
“…So, who is the Bill really for? As I have said before, the clue is in the text: it mentions maternity rights just three times, but it mentions the word “union”—no Labour Members have declared their interests—478 times.”
Employment Rights Bill · 2025-12-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…To answer the question that the hon. Gentleman did not manage to answer, the word “maternity” appears in this Bill three times; the word “union” appears in this Bill 478 times. Follow the money, Madam Deputy Speaker. With unemployment higher every month—[Interruption.] Listen and learn.”
Employment Rights Bill · 2025-11-05 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Interruption.] Labour Members seek to hide behind measures that we support, such as enhanced maternity rights. But will the hon. Member tell me how many times the word “maternity” appears in the Bill, and how many times the word “union”—his paymasters—appears in it?…”
Employment Rights Bill · 2025-11-05 · Read on Hansard ↗
“Mental health is a huge issue; across the House we would agree on that and the Mayfield report this morning is just one of many contributions to the debate. But for so many—this goes to reform of our welfare system as well—the right answer will be to be in employment, and the Mayfield report talks about creating barrie…”
Employment Rights Bill · 2025-11-05 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I thank my right hon. Friend and predecessor in the role of City Minister. This is an important point: where we can, we will support the Government in continuing the work, which he and I started, of trying improve the investment outcomes for our economy.”
Business and the Economy · 2025-05-21 · Read on Hansard ↗
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