Baroness Meyer
House of Lords
ConservativeBaroness Meyer's full title is The Baroness Meyer CBE. Her name is Catherine Irene Jacqueline Meyer, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Overall, across health & social care this Parliament
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Ranks 747th of 1273 MPs and peers who have spoken on health or care this Parliament — top 59%. 8 contributions since 2025-03-28.
What they’ve raised
Baroness Meyer has engaged extensively on health and social care through seven debate speeches and committee work, with particular focus on end-of-life care, mental health, and public health prevention. Her contributions on the Terminally Ill Adults Bill emphasised safeguards including mandatory psychological assessments before assisted dying is discussed, drawing on personal experience of her father's death. She has also advocated for children's mental health protection by restricting mobile phones and social media access in schools, and highlighted failures in tackling childhood obesity as a preventable public health issue.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
Record by topic
- Mental health365th of 86710.0
- Public health & prevention244th of 6836.5
- Assisted dying161st of 3474.0
- Palliative & end of life care283rd of 5524.0
- Cancer495th of 6132.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing232nd of 2952.0
What they’ve said
“…It simply proposes that, if the Bill proceeds, before any doctor raises the possibility of assisted dying, the patient should first receive a psychological assessment from an appropriately qualified specialist. This is not an onerous hurdle but a basic and sensible safeguard.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…By contrast, raising the age to 21 would achieve the same public health goals, by the Government’s own figures, without punishing retailers or driving trade into the hands of criminals, as so well explained earlier.”
Tobacco and Vapes Bill · 2025-10-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…That experience left me sympathetic to the right to die. On a personal level, I would want that choice. I do not want my sons’ last memory of their mother to be like the one I have of my father, but personal experiences, however powerful, are not enough to justify enacting a law of such gravity.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2025-09-12 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…generation, we did not have phones and we did not have that exposure to predators, and we did not have so many mental health issues among the youth.…”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-06-23 · Read on Hansard ↗