Biography
Baroness Brown of Silvertown has engaged with health and social care topics primarily through six debate speeches in the Lords, covering assisted dying, children's wellbeing, obesity, and nutrition-related issues. She drew particular attention to end-of-life care safeguards in the Terminally Ill Adults Bill, emphasising concerns about vulnerable populations, and highlighted the obesity epidemic's impact on NHS costs and individual health through committee work on food and diet policy. Her contributions reflect a focus on health inequalities and the protection of disadvantaged groups across multiple health domains.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Maternal undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies and anaemia increase the risk of stillbirths, newborn deaths and post-term and preterm deliveries, as well as impairing foetal development, with lifelong consequences for that child’s health.”
Record by topic
- Learning disability & autism592nd of 8994.0
- Mental health603rd of 8804.0
- Health inequalities238th of 2882.5
- Maternity & neonatal363rd of 4382.0
- Palliative & end of life care452nd of 5682.0
- Public health & prevention573rd of 6882.0
- Assisted dying277th of 3712.0
- Rare diseases170th of 2022.0
- Cancer503rd of 6222.0
- Children's health131st of 1572.0
What they’ve said
“My Lords, my Amendment 51 and others would require the providers of assisted dying services to ensure that all persons seeking such services have discussed the range of end-of-life options available to them with a palliative care specialist.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-01-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, this is the first amendment I have moved in your Lordships’ House and I hope I do it some justice because, in just one year, there were nine murders of young people associated with the pernicious drug trade colloquially known as county lines.”
Crime and Policing Bill · 2025-11-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I started my working life as a residential social worker, and I am godmother to a beautiful boy being cared for by his wonderful grandparents. Kinship care is a great solution for many young people whose parents are unable to take on parenting, and this Bill will, thankfully, finally define kinship care in legislation,…”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-05-01 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…There is a very real and increasing health gap between the richest and the poorest. We have relied on the good faith of the food industry for far too long—that it will voluntarily reformulate its products—and we have told people they must eat healthier.”
Food, Diet and Obesity Committee Report · 2025-03-28 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My noble Lords, it is an absolute privilege to follow on from the noble Lord, Lord Shinkwin, and so many of the exceptional speeches we have heard today. I pay tribute to the maiden speeches of my noble friends Lord Katz, Lady Levitt and Lord Evans.”
Holocaust Memorial Day · 2025-02-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
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