Baroness Scott of Bybrook

House of Lords

Conservative

Overall, across health & social care this Parliament

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Ranks 526th of 1273 MPs and peers who have spoken on health or care this Parliament — top 41%. 17 contributions since 2024-09-05.

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“…in relation to service charges, which are getting higher and higher every single year? We are also seeing long waiting lists in social housing. Thanks to this Government’s choices to increase employer national insurance and taxes on business, unemployment has now risen to 5%.”
King’s Speech · 2026-05-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, these Benches also align with everything that has been said about the great Lord Beecham. I wrote down a number of things to say, but it has all been said. He was a hero in local government.”
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · 2026-04-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Their focus must be on delivering front-line services: social care, housing, waste collection, planning and public health. Requiring every authority to draft, publish and continually review a bespoke social media strategy, complete with formal risk assessments, would impose additional administrative burdens at a time w…”
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · 2026-03-05 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…now delivered by the district councils or by the town and parish councils, but the big services of social care, SEND, highways and so on. This legislation must not be based on a shallow understanding of what constitutes local communities and neighbourhoods.”
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · 2026-03-05 ·