Biography
Baroness Hyde of Bemerton has made six debate speeches across diverse topics including early release prisoners and homelessness, foetal alcohol spectrum disorder prevention, family hubs accessibility, social housing, and development partnership assistance. While the four tracked health and social care topics (health inequalities, mental health, NHS waiting lists, learning disability and autism) do not feature prominently in these extracts, her contributions reflect broader engagement with vulnerable populations and public health prevention, particularly regarding women's health, mental health support, and access to services for disadvantaged groups.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Lordships’ House are keen to take a strategic view and, just as Marmot introduced the idea of the social determinants of health, noble Lords here can work on the social determinants of crime.”
Record by topic
- Mental health481st of 8806.0
- Health inequalities245th of 2882.0
- Learning disability & autism756th of 8992.0
- NHS waiting lists467th of 5342.0
What they’ve said
“…n measures to the recent women’s health strategy, strategies for sexual and reproductive health and the interim mental health strategy? Will she also work with colleagues to ensure that FASD education and prevention is a policy priority for local authority health teams?…”
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder · 2026-06-25 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I am thinking, for example, of women who are the victims of domestic abuse, women who have poor mental health and women who have encountered the criminal justice system.”
Best Start Family Hubs · 2026-06-10 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…A lot of my casework over eight years as a local authority councillor was trying to help people on a housing waiting list of 16,000. Even with our borough’s country-leading buy-back scheme, through which we had a grant from the Mayor of London to buy back right-to-buy properties and bring them back under council owners…”
Social Housing Bill [HL] · 2026-06-01 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I congratulate the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich for an important and moving maiden speech. The first person in her family to stay in education after 16, this tenacious Teessider has a lot to offer your Lordships’ House.”
King’s Speech · 2026-05-18 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…There is much good work in the suicide prevention space and yet there is clearly more still to do. I had a difficult time in adolescence and as a young woman, and there were many times when I was pretty unwell. But, as Rebecca Lucy Taylor might say, “now I see it clear with every passing of each year.”
UK Development Partnership Assistance · 2026-01-29 · Read on Hansard ↗
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