Biography
Baroness Coussins has made three debate speeches addressing health and social care topics. She raised concerns about assisted dying legislation, specifically arguing for face-to-face consultations as an exception for people requiring public service interpreters, and highlighted language-related vulnerabilities in public health messaging and emergency preparedness exposed by the Covid-19 inquiry. A recurring theme in her contributions is the importance of accessible communication and support for groups with specific needs during health and policy implementation.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…remote assessments, it is very important that we have an exception for one group of people who might be seeking assisted dying: those who require the services of a public service interpreter. Elsewhere in the Bill, the provision of interpreters is acknowledged and provided for.”
Record by topic
- Public health & prevention373rd of 6884.0
- Assisted dying277th of 3712.0
What they’ve said
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Strategic Defence Review 2025 · 2025-07-18 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…-related issues, which arguably are implicit in the report’s conclusions on the way in which communications and public health messaging contribute to preparedness and resilience, but which in my view need to be explicit, spelled out and acted on if future emergencies are not to leave some groups in society still dispro…”
Covid-19 Inquiry · 2024-09-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
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