Biography
Baroness Scott has engaged extensively with health and social care topics through 17 debate speeches, primarily focused on the intersection of local government responsibilities and health provision. Her contributions have emphasised concerns about health inequalities, NHS-local authority relationships, and the role of councils in addressing public health, particularly in relation to the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill. She has also raised specific issues around community housing provision for adults with autism and learning disabilities.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…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%.”
Record by topic
- Learning disability & autism307th of 89912.0
- Public health & prevention232nd of 6888.0
- Health inequalities121st of 2884.0
- NHS waiting lists302nd of 5344.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing236th of 3022.0
- Adult social care & reform312th of 3762.0
- Unpaid carers243rd of 2832.0
- Elderly care & frailty166th of 2362.0
What they’ve said
“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 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…That pushed me to do this more and more. However, as I have noted previously, many of the determinants of public health sit outside the health system. We must be clear on who is responsible for what.”
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · 2026-02-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…county authorities to have regard to the need to improve the health of the people in their areas and to reduce health inequalities when they exercise their functions. The same duty is applied to mayors of mayoral combined authorities and mayoral combined county authorities. This represents a welcome shift.”
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · 2026-02-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
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