Biography
Clive Lewis has engaged on health and social care topics primarily through debate speeches, with particular focus on structural and funding issues across multiple areas including adult social care reform, NHS dentistry access, and broader healthcare provision in the East of England. His contributions emphasise systemic concerns such as private equity profit extraction from adult social care, the need for NHS dental contract reform to retain new dentists in the public sector, and the social and economic roots of healthcare crises. Lewis has also raised questions about local devolution of health and social care services following years of austerity under the previous Government.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“The right hon. Member asked who will pay for the national living wage increase in the adult social care sector, but something he omitted—and it is quite telling—is the number of private equity companies that are extracting vast profit from adult social care. He did not mention them.”
Record by topic
- Mental health188th of 88018.0
- Adult social care & reform39th of 37612.0
- A&E & ambulance response34th of 2589.0
- Dentistry access41st of 1949.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)47th of 1423.0
- NHS waiting lists323rd of 5343.0
What they’ve said
“…Look at Norwich: a zero-hours care worker has no work-life balance to speak of; they have work-life whiplash. Mental health referrals in Norfolk are up 40% since 2020—we will not find that in an Office for National Statistics income chart.”
Living Standards: East of England · 2025-09-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…gramme that has sucked the marrow out of millions, leaving them drained and burned out and leading to a soaring mental health crisis. What does explain our dilemma is the fact that work itself has fundamentally changed.”
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill · 2025-07-01 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…ing out in a few years’ time will be going into the private sector, not the NHS, unless we can sort out the NHS dental contract. Can he give us any kind of timeline for when we can expect to hear an announcement on that critical factor?…”
Topical Questions · 2025-02-11 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…After 14 years of austerity and cuts to adult social care and children’s services under the last Government, will the Secretary of State promise us that she will encourage the new local authorities to engage in co-development and co-production of those services, and that they will be taken in-house, so that we can end…”
English Devolution and Local Government · 2025-02-05 · Read on Hansard ↗
“That is my personal view; I put that on the record. These companies have legal obligations first and foremost to their shareholders, which means short-term profit maximisation.”
Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords] · 2025-01-28 · Read on Hansard ↗
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