Biography
Ben Lake has engaged on health and social care through three debate speeches, raising concerns about dentistry access, palliative care provision, and elderly care in the context of rural service delivery. In a December 2024 speech on National Insurance Contributions, he warned that inadequate reimbursement for social care hubs, hospices, dentists and GPs risked eroding the value of government investment in these services. He has linked these service challenges to broader demographic trends affecting rural areas, particularly in Wales and his Ceredigion Preseli constituency.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Ceredigion Preseli, like many other constituencies, has an ageing population. The trend is particularly pronounced in my constituency. According to the Office for National Statistics, if current trends continue, 30% of the population of Pembrokeshire and a third of the population of Ceredigion will be older than 65 by…”
Record by topic
- Dentistry access100th of 1943.0
- Elderly care & frailty76th of 2363.0
- Palliative & end of life care329th of 5683.0
What they’ve said
“…There is a real risk that if our social care hubs, hospices, dentists and GPs are not adequately reimbursed, all the Government will do is erode the value of the investment that they claim to be making in those services. I could also say a little bit about the university sector.”
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill · 2024-12-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We are talking about the lack of GPs and the fact that we do not have an NHS dentist any more in much of the constituency. The hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) mentioned bank closures.”
Rural Depopulation · 2024-09-11 · Read on Hansard ↗
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