Rhondda and Ogmore
LabourOverall, across health & social care this Parliament
Get a doctor in here!
Ranks 355th of 1273 MPs and peers who have spoken on health or care this Parliament — top 28%. 18 contributions since 2025-01-27.
“The hospice sector is not specifically my responsibility, but of course I value hospices. To go back to the earlier point about the state of the finances in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, this is the first Secretary of State who has managed to get £3 billion for investment in capital funding.”
Topical Questions · 2025-07-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I will come on in a moment to some of the problems that I think we have, but when I was first elected as a Member of Parliament, there were still many laws in this country that drastically affected the rights of LGBTQ people in this country, and it is because of political parties that we changed the law.”
Pride Month · 2025-06-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…That includes reducing waiting times, expanding service capacity and improving mental health support throughout the transition journey. We are investing in housing solutions for young LGBT+ people at risk of homelessness, too. Far too many are pushed out of their homes or fall through the cracks in mainstream services.”
Pride Month · 2025-06-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The hon. Member made extremely good points about how libraries can help with mental health and health generally and issues such as loneliness, but I am not going to tell people in Northern Ireland how to run the library service. If I did, I would suddenly get an email and a demand for a meeting, so I will be careful.”
Future of Public Libraries · 2025-05-14 ·
“…s ago, we may never have had in vitro fertilisation and the benefits spinning off from that, including valuable cancer research. Those are the issues caused by putting such a test in a legally binding setting that it was never designed for.…”
Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords] · 2025-05-14 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…es that are always on local government, but those pressures have been so intense for the last 14 years, with an ageing population taking up a much greater proportion of funding through social care, and looking after children in care, as well as very diminished budgets.”
Community Theatre · 2025-03-12 · Read on Hansard ↗
Contributions reproduced under the Open Parliament Licence.