Biography
Baroness Young of Old Scone has made six debate speeches across environmental and infrastructure bills, with particular emphasis on the health benefits of green and natural spaces. While her contributions have focused primarily on planning, social housing, energy, and water policy, she has specifically highlighted mental health and public health benefits within these broader contexts—notably commending evidence on green spaces and mental health improvement, and discussing nature-based solutions' benefits for human health and mental health alongside environmental outcomes.
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“…nment, reduce heat effects, improve air quality, reduce flood risks, and provide the well-documented health and mental health benefits for those who are most at need? They need social housing but they also need tree equity. I have got some time, so I might make two last remarks about the political debate.”
Record by topic
- Mental health456th of 8808.0
- Learning disability & autism756th of 8992.0
- Public health & prevention573rd of 6882.0
What they’ve said
“…These are vital for health, mental health, well-being and air quality; we heard about heat, natural flood risk management and the huge range of things that, apart from allowing people to have room to enjoy open spaces, are also going to be delivered by these open spaces.…”
Planning and Infrastructure Bill · 2025-10-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…health, which is an excellent evidence-based exposition of the whole case for green spaces and health—including mental health—improvement. In the interests of transparency, I particularly commend it since she sent me a free copy.”
Planning and Infrastructure Bill · 2025-09-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…fact moving towards being a mixed woodland mix that can do all these other duties like biodiversity, access and public health, rather than simply being species that are aimed at commercial return.…”
Planning and Infrastructure Bill · 2025-09-01 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…rd—but nature-based solutions, which create biodiversity and other benefits, such as benefits for human health, mental health, water purification and flood control, are excellent schemes if they can be made to work effectively and cost effectively, bearing in mind all the benefits.”
Great British Energy Bill · 2025-02-11 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, this is a large group of amendments and I am going to go on a bit; I apologise for that. I will speak first of all to my Amendment 45, which is a probing amendment. I should say, for the avoidance of doubt, that I declare no beavers.”
Water (Special Measures) Bill [HL] · 2024-10-30 · Read on Hansard ↗
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