Biography
Dame Nia Griffith has engaged extensively with employment rights and workers' protections through 21 debate speeches, with particular focus on supporting unpaid carers, parental leave arrangements, and strengthening workplace harassment protections during committee proceedings on the Employment Rights Bill. While her tracked topics span 12 health and social care areas including mental health, NHS workforce, and learning disability, the provided extracts show her recent contributions centre predominantly on employment law rather than direct health policy engagement. Her contributions reflect sustained advocacy for vulnerable groups including kinship carers, pregnant employees, and LGBT+ communities alongside supporting health initiatives such as HIV transmission work.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…She sacrificed her career as a nursing midwifery manager to look after him in his final years. Even after so many years, Damian’s family have never had redress or an apology.”
Record by topic
- Maternity & neonatal24th of 43824.0
- Mental health290th of 88012.0
- Public health & prevention183rd of 6889.0
- Health inequalities80th of 2886.0
- Cancer230th of 6226.0
- Learning disability & autism466th of 8996.0
- Unpaid carers92nd of 2836.0
- NHS waiting lists207th of 5346.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing118th of 3023.0
- Heart disease & stroke174th of 3983.0
- Rare diseases80th of 2023.0
- A&E & ambulance response107th of 2583.0
What they’ve said
“…the health service, more personnel will have to be recruited in order to speed up the process of bringing down waiting lists. I appreciate that we all want to see waiting lists come down more quickly, but it is no mean feat that they are now consistently falling.”
St David’s Day and Welsh Affairs · 2026-02-26 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham East (Nadia Whittome) not only for taking the initiative on this debate, but for making a fantastic opening speech and saying so much about our trans community that is so important. I will come back to that in a moment.”
LGBT+ History Month · 2026-02-12 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I hope the House will forgive me if I do not have time to mention everybody, because we have had such a wide-ranging debate with so many people taking part. I thank Members from across the House for their heartfelt and thoughtful contributions, particularly my hon.”
Pride Month · 2025-06-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…She reminded us that, 50 years on, the mental health challenges faced by lesbians are significantly greater than those faced by the population in general. The hon.”
Lesbian Visibility Week · 2025-04-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We know that they are abuse, that they do not work and that they leave a legacy of painful memories and lasting mental health problems. The previous Government did nothing to ban this abhorrent practice—this Government will be different.”
LGBT+ History Month · 2025-02-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
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