Biography
Baroness Kramer has engaged extensively on health and social care through 18 debate speeches, addressing elderly care, NHS staffing, adult social care reform, and rare diseases including a detailed intervention on access to givinostat for boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. She has also contributed to two ministerial statements on fiscal matters affecting vulnerable groups, such as pension access for the terminally ill and benefit cuts' impact on individuals receiving PIP and universal credit. Her committee work focused on economic policy with broader implications for public services funding.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…It is getting worse with our ageing population. We have to address the issue that we have a very small working-age population to sustain our growing elderly population. We dodge that issue. It ties into the immigration debate as well and is so often ignored.”
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care124th of 56813.0
- Learning disability & autism307th of 89912.0
- Elderly care & frailty12th of 23611.5
- Adult social care & reform56th of 37610.0
- Rare diseases73rd of 2024.0
- GP access205th of 2412.0
- NHS waiting lists467th of 5342.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing236th of 3022.0
What they’ve said
“…I add an additional point, which is that many of those who will die, sadly, of a terminal illness at a young age will have put money aside or been due a state pension had they lived to the normal end of life, and therefore the tax benefit that they get is very largely offset by the fact that they will never receive the…”
Pension Access Rules: Impact on Terminally Ill · 2026-06-30 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Vaux, and the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, both gave far better speeches then I could, and covered the whole area substantially. I am grateful to them, but this gives me a few moments to reply.”
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL] · 2026-06-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Government’s Home Office, but to the rest of us trying to focus on the fact that we have an ageing population, when we look at the demographics, that drop in migration is a serious barrier to medium and long-term growth. Even the good news in the Spring Statement is fragile.”
Spring Forecast Statement · 2026-03-17 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The Federation of Small Businesses has looked at this Bill and warned of the impact on staff retention. I just wonder: does no one in the Treasury understand that an expanding small business sector is the backbone of the economy, our major source of new jobs, the underpinning of communities and the birthing ground for…”
National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill · 2026-02-04 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Prelate the Bishop of Portsmouth on where the funding will come from to guarantee SEND provision when it shifts from local authorities to central government. The noble Baroness, Lady Barran, raised that issue, and my noble friend Lord Mohammed of Tinsley stressed its importance.”
Autumn Budget 2025 · 2025-12-04 · Read on Hansard ↗
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