Biography
Baroness Neville-Rolfe has engaged extensively on health and social care through 29 debate speeches, primarily focusing on elderly care, palliative care, and the challenges facing the social care and charitable sectors. She has raised concerns about the impact of national insurance contributions on hospices and social care charities, speaking to multiple bills on this topic, and engaged with the Economic Affairs Committee's report on preparing for an ageing society. Her contributions have also touched on public health prevention, learning disabilities, and GP access within broader legislative debates.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…At the top of page 12, the commitment to “halving the gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest” is foolish. The Government’s ambition should be to improve healthy life expectancy for everyone, especially the least fortunate.”
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care41st of 56833.0
- Learning disability & autism187th of 89921.0
- Elderly care & frailty25th of 2368.5
- Public health & prevention252nd of 6886.0
- Long Covid14th of 554.0
- GP access86th of 2414.0
- Health inequalities238th of 2882.5
- Adult social care & reform312th of 3762.0
What they’ve said
“My Lords, I, too, send my best wishes to the noble Lords, Lord Livermore and Lord Stockwood. I welcome the appointment of the noble Lord, Lord Pitt-Watson, and look forward to the more constructive approach favoured by the new Prime Minister.”
Electricity Bills: VAT Removal · 2026-07-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…n the ability of consumers, including vulnerable consumers—particularly those in serious circumstances, such as terminal illness—to obtain fair redress. I have been told, for example, that there is a variance between companies over acceptance rates in such cases. The Minister might want to look into that.”
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL] · 2026-06-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Another challenge is the cost of an ageing population to the public purse. The OBR has warned that on our current trajectory the long-term pressure of ageing and related spending could push borrowing and debt to absurd levels. But the markets will not let that happen, so we have to develop a response.”
Declining Birth Rates · 2026-06-04 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, I thank everyone who has taken part in today’s debate. I thank the Minister, the noble Baroness, Lady Anderson, for her crisp and helpful summary of the new legislative programme at the beginning of the day.”
King’s Speech · 2026-05-14 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, my first point is that the world economic situation now is very different from that existing at the time of the Spring Statement, let alone that in place when the finance Bill was introduced—different and significantly worse. The Middle East war has overturned economic expectations, especially optimistic ones.”
Spring Forecast Statement · 2026-03-17 · Read on Hansard ↗
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