Biography
Baroness Noakes has engaged with health and social care topics primarily through debate speeches, with particular focus on assisted dying and end-of-life care. Her contributions to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill debates emphasised public support for the legislation and raised concerns about whether motor neurone disease patients would qualify under the six-month prognosis requirement. She also addressed employment allowance provisions affecting NHS and care sector employers during National Insurance contributions debates.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…e speed of progression of the disease usually means that getting a six-month diagnosis is almost impossible, so motor neurone disease patients will find it very difficult to fit themselves within this. This is, I think, widely acknowledged.”
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care213th of 5686.0
- Assisted dying170th of 3714.0
- Learning disability & autism592nd of 8994.0
- Dentistry access175th of 1942.0
- Rare diseases170th of 2022.0
What they’ve said
“…Like my noble friend Lady Barran, I ask the Minister to say how much will be spent on SEND after 2027-28, which budget will pay for it and what will happen to the accumulated local authority deficits that have been growing while they have been funding the rising SEND bill over recent years.”
Autumn Budget 2025 · 2025-12-04 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, I support the Bill. Much has changed in the many years that your Lordships’ House has been debating assisted dying for the terminally ill, but public support for it has been constant. The British Social Attitudes survey has found around 80% in favour and 20% against consistently for the past 30 years.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2025-09-12 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I want to underline a point made by my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe about hospices. At the earlier stages of the Bill, the Minister kept repeating that the Government were putting £100 million into hospices and £26 million into children’s hospices.”
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill · 2025-03-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…GPs and NHS dentists have been cited as among those caught by this definition. Amendment 55 would remove this exception for public authorities so that they would be able to claim the employment allowance and Amendment 54 would create a £20,000 level of employment allowance for public authorities.”
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill · 2025-02-06 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Businesses, charities and hospices are all telling us that this is a major disaster. So I believe that his precedents are not on all fours in this particular case; we ought not to be fobbed off by the fact that the Treasury has, over time, found it inconvenient to produce impact assessments.”
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill · 2025-01-29 · Read on Hansard ↗
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