Biography
Baroness Sherlock has engaged extensively through 40 debate speeches on health and social care topics, with particular focus on employment support for people with learning disabilities and autism, including detailed discussion of the connect to work programme and personalised employment pathways. Her contributions also covered broader issues including mental health, adult social care, unpaid carers, and palliative care, alongside engagement on pensions policy affecting retirement savings and terminal illness provisions. Her interventions demonstrate deep expertise in neurodiversity and disability employment, often drawing on practical examples and prompting detailed policy responses from government ministers.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“The noble Baroness makes an excellent point. She is absolutely right that the employment rate for people with a learning disability is unacceptably low. Through developing our connect to work programme, we have found that we need to work with both the employer and the individual who wants a job.”
Record by topic
- Learning disability & autism75th of 89940.0
- Mental health91st of 88040.0
- Unpaid carers23rd of 28322.0
- Maternity & neonatal66th of 43814.0
- Public health & prevention125th of 68812.0
- NHS waiting lists139th of 53410.0
- Adult social care & reform89th of 3768.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)45th of 1424.0
- Palliative & end of life care294th of 5684.0
- Health inequalities121st of 2884.0
- Heart disease & stroke324th of 3982.0
- Cancer503rd of 6222.0
- A&E & ambulance response222nd of 2582.0
- GP access205th of 2412.0
- Elderly care & frailty166th of 2362.0
- Dentistry access175th of 1942.0
What they’ve said
“I now realise that I did a terrible job, because repeatedly during the passage of the Pension Schemes Act I tried to explain why that was not right, and I utterly failed—I will have one last go. The Government set out a pensions investment review to look at the state of the landscape of private pension saving.”
Pensions Commission · 2026-07-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, I am not pre-empting anything that the commission will say, but the Government are very aware of the position of people who have terminal illnesses. As the noble Baroness of course knows very well, we have looked at some of the rules around how, for example, the benefits system can best assist people.”
Pensions Commission · 2026-07-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, the Government are committed to supporting autistic people into employment, including through targeted specialist support. Our £1 billion connect to work programme includes a supported employment pathway for neurodivergent people and is now live across most of England and Wales, with recent data showing encou…”
Unemployment: People with Autism · 2026-06-25 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…done and from the early report from the Department of Health, which looked into questions around prevalence of autism and other neurodivergent conditions, that one challenge is that people are having to seek out diagnosis in order to get support. In fact, we need to make sure that support is not dependent on diagnosis.”
Unemployment: People with Autism · 2026-06-25 · Read on Hansard ↗
“The noble Baroness is absolutely right to focus on support. Alan Milburn made the point very strongly about the need—across the system, not just in employment—to engage with support and early prevention work rather than just dealing with the outcomes of inactivity among young people.”
Unemployment: People with Autism · 2026-06-25 · Read on Hansard ↗
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