Biography
Baroness Hamwee has engaged with health and social care topics primarily through debate speeches on the Sentencing Bill, emphasising the need for mental health treatment and support for vulnerable offenders rather than detention, and highlighting inconsistencies in third-sector provision of rehabilitative services across the country. She has also raised public health concerns regarding exploitation and modern slavery through committee work and debate, drawing on her trustee role at Safer London to underscore the connection between vulnerability, trauma and criminal justice. Her contributions reflect a focus on rehabilitation, treatment provision, and protecting at-risk populations within the criminal justice system.
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“…tal ill-health; they just happen to have more vulnerabilities and problems than people who will fall within the Mental Health Bill. “For their own protection” seems to me to be a misnomer. The reality is that this can make their condition worse.”
Record by topic
- Mental health481st of 8806.0
- Learning disability & autism592nd of 8994.0
- Public health & prevention562nd of 6882.5
What they’ve said
“…A friend of mine refers to some of these organisations as having something that is almost similar to an eating disorder—they simply do not have enough. That is not a very good way of putting it, but they are so hampered by lack of funding.”
Sentencing Bill · 2025-12-01 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…es due to the complexity of their lives, the challenges they face in complying with court-ordered requirements, mental health disorders, caretaking responsibilities, unstable housing and lower employment prospects.”
Sentencing Bill · 2025-11-26 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Alongside this, Safer London is finding that about a third of its clients are neurodiverse or have special educational needs. Allowing for those undiagnosed, this may actually mean about 50%. So many are so vulnerable.”
Crime and Policing Bill · 2025-10-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, I should declare an interest as a trustee of Safer London, which supports young people at risk of exploitation. Recently, a flat in my leafy London suburb was cleared out, with large, apparently industrial items being chucked out of an upstairs window.”
Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee Report · 2025-03-28 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, the introduction to the debate from the noble Lord, Lord Harrington, was very compelling. I am speaking personally—not that I think my Liberal Democrat colleagues would intervene on and disagree with me, but many of them have expertise in these issues, as, of course, do others in today’s debate, which I do no…”
Foreign Direct Investment to the UK · 2024-09-10 · Read on Hansard ↗
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