Biography
Burnham engaged substantially on mental health across multiple debate speeches, emphasizing preventive services and discussing structural issues affecting perinatal mental health and community-based provision. He also addressed social care reform with a focus on workforce development as foundational to improving service quality, while raising individual cases concerning cancer research, maternity services, and support for unpaid carers based on personal experience.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…We will take the Labour way: change education, support our young people, and provide more mental health support. That is the Labour way to get the welfare bill down, and I say to the right hon.”
Record by topic
- Mental health140th of 88024.0
- Maternity & neonatal138th of 4386.0
- Cancer230th of 6226.0
- Dementia108th of 2513.0
- Adult social care & reform186th of 3763.0
- Unpaid carers158th of 2833.0
- NHS waiting lists323rd of 5343.0
What they’ve said
“…Gentleman says and I will set out more measures later. I looked into the issues with North Devon’s maternity unit, and the right hon. Gentleman will soon receive an update from me. He mentions Musgrove Park hospital in Taunton—a hospital I know.”
Engagements · 2026-09-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I thank the hon. Lady for that very direct and good question. She is right to point to wasted spending in the mental health system when people are sent hundreds of miles in search of a bed; those placements can be very costly indeed.”
Engagements · 2026-09-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We are investing more in perinatal mental health and parent-infant relationships—more funding is going in—but I accept, as she is saying, that more needs to be done. I will look at her Bill.”
Engagements · 2026-09-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I also say to the right hon. Gentleman with honesty that there are structural issues affecting maternity services across the UK. This is not the only hospital where there have been difficulties.”
Engagements · 2026-09-02 · Read on Hansard ↗
“That last point is the point. We have to do better on mental health services, and the Health Secretary absolutely agrees. That is why we committed in the summer to community-based mental health provision: to make it easier for people to access that provision. I am aware of my hon.”
Engagements · 2026-09-02 · Read on Hansard ↗
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