Biography
Dame Meg Hillier has engaged extensively with health and social care issues through 27 debate speeches, with particular focus on assisted dying, where she raised concerns about coercive control, the irreversibility of decisions, and the need for legislative precision. She has also championed local health improvements in her Hackney constituency, including praising Homerton hospital's productivity gains and Mind in Hackney's mental health support model, whilst highlighting systemic funding issues affecting NHS performance. Her contributions span children's health, maternity services, and GP access, often grounding national policy discussions in constituency-level examples and service innovations.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…llenges that children face, whether before going to nursery or afterwards, and whether by a health visitor or a midwife. From his research in developing the Bill, does he have anything to say about the importance of that?…”
Record by topic
- NHS waiting lists37th of 53421.0
- Assisted dying48th of 37118.0
- Palliative & end of life care80th of 56818.0
- Mental health241st of 88015.0
- Learning disability & autism382nd of 8999.0
- Maternity & neonatal238th of 4383.0
- GP access93rd of 2413.0
- Cancer365th of 6223.0
- Heart disease & stroke174th of 3983.0
- Children's health56th of 1573.0
- A&E & ambulance response107th of 2583.0
What they’ve said
“…Government Bill Committees that Members have sat on have been shorter than the private Member’s Bill on assisted dying. That is because Government Bills are timetabled.”
Progression of Bills through Parliament · 2026-06-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The assisted dying Bill had an awful lot of Henry VIII powers: 42 delegated powers for any future Government—who may be mad, bad or dangerous, and of any existing party or one yet to be thought of—to make these decisions. That is what we would be giving away if the Bill were to pass.”
Progression of Bills through Parliament · 2026-06-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…That may appeal to many people in this Chamber in relation to the assisted dying Bill, but we must also look at the long-term precedent. In considering how we legislate in this place, let us not demonise the Lords for doing their job in the current system.…”
Progression of Bills through Parliament · 2026-06-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Mind in Hackney, which is pioneering a new approach to make sure that people get two sessions of mental health support within two weeks. They can get more later on, but that is what they get, rather than waiting in a queue for six months for long-term support.”
Access to Mental Health Services · 2026-02-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I am sure that, like me and others, the Leader of the House will be pleased to learn that NHS waiting lists continue to drop. I am also sure he will agree that Homerton hospital, which has seen productivity on operations increase by more than 11% year on year, is a beacon of what can be done.”
Business of the House · 2026-01-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
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