Biography
Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath has engaged on health and social care primarily through 15 debate speeches, with particular emphasis on learning disabilities, autism, cancer, and mental health—topics often informed by her personal and professional experience. She has drawn on her background chairing NHS England's transforming care steering group and her sister's experience with profound learning disabilities to contribute substantively to debates on hospital detention, community support provision, and care access. Her contributions also reflect longstanding concerns about tobacco control and public health prevention, notably supporting amendments to smoke-free and vaping legislation informed by her family's history of lung cancer.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…The flight out was fine and the Vatican really came up trumps, with the people who worked there, on seeing her frailty, secretly shepherding her into the “staff only” lifts to get her smoothly from floor to floor. However, on returning to Gatwick, she was stuck on the plane. There was no lift for a very long time.”
Record by topic
- Cancer121st of 62214.0
- Mental health281st of 88014.0
- Learning disability & autism307th of 89912.0
- Public health & prevention232nd of 6888.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)21st of 1426.0
- Health inequalities245th of 2882.0
- Elderly care & frailty166th of 2362.0
- Children's health131st of 1572.0
What they’ve said
“…My father and older sister both died of lung cancer. My father became addicted to smoking back in the days when tobacco companies pretended that the products they were selling were not killers. By the time he showed symptoms, it was too late to operate on him, even though he was otherwise very fit and healthy.”
Cancer Outcomes in the UK · 2026-04-21 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The noble Lord, Lord Markham, gave 18 spoken answers—nine on cancer staffing and nine on children’s cancer—and a speech on sexual and reproductive healthcare. The noble Lord, Lord Ahmad, gave 15 answers, on the death penalty and on the execution of Hussein Abu Al-Khair, as well as a Statement on the latter.”
Ministerial Salaries (Amendment) Bill · 2026-04-14 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…She never talked, she could not walk and was doubly incontinent. She had recently been diagnosed with lung cancer, despite having never smoked. The consultant who gave us that diagnosis had advised that her cancer was not suitable for treatment and that he expected that she would receive palliative pain-relieving care…”
Learning Disabilities: Health and Social Care Access · 2026-03-26 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Amendment 180 would remove the sampling exemption to smoke-free legislation that currently allows cigar lounges to operate. This exemption has created a loophole that accommodates smoking indoors in a public place—something that we rightly consigned to history in 2007.”
Tobacco and Vapes Bill · 2025-11-17 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…This Bill is a world-leading piece of public health legislation. It is comprehensive in the powers it takes to regulate tobacco products; flexible; and, we hope, future-proof.”
Tobacco and Vapes Bill · 2025-11-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
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