Biography
Abrahams has engaged extensively on health and social care through 39 debate speeches, with a particular focus on health inequalities, their intersection with poverty and austerity, and support for vulnerable groups including young people, children, and pensioners. She has consistently linked health outcomes to social security policy, public health prevention, and workplace health, whilst raising concerns about the impacts of policy changes on mental health and mortality rates. Her contributions span interconnected policy areas across the Department for Work and Pensions and Health, reflecting her Select Committee work on pensioner poverty and the transition to state pension age.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Unfortunately, it is clear that disadvantage, ill health and frailty are not spread evenly across the country; they are concentrated in some communities more than others, and they go hand in hand with poverty.”
Record by topic
- Health inequalities5th of 28841.5
- Mental health115th of 88030.0
- Public health & prevention49th of 68824.0
- Learning disability & autism187th of 89921.0
- Dementia14th of 25115.0
- NHS waiting lists207th of 5346.0
- Heart disease & stroke75th of 3986.0
- Children's health28th of 1576.0
- Elderly care & frailty63rd of 2365.5
- Long Covid16th of 553.0
- Diabetes68th of 1903.0
- Adult social care & reform186th of 3763.0
- Cancer365th of 6223.0
- Unpaid carers242nd of 2832.5
What they’ve said
“I am grateful for that intervention; long may that work continue. About one in eight young people are not in work, education or training. That is more than a million young people. It is the first time since 2013 that have we seen figures on that level.”
Department for Work and Pensions · 2026-06-30 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…ently-criticised spending on working-age benefits and on children—which has come under growing pressure from an ageing population. Debate about that spending has at times been framed in stark terms, but understanding people’s lives makes clear just how essential this support is.”
Department for Work and Pensions · 2026-06-30 · Read on Hansard ↗
“T9. There is overwhelming evidence that marketised health systems, as the NHS has become, increase health inequalities. Will the Health Secretary consider amendments to the Health Bill that will tackle the rising inequalities in existing health policies, including allowing local NHS organisations to determine if they n…”
Topical Questions · 2026-06-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
“Our declining healthy life expectancy, as underlined in today’s Health Foundation report, is a real worry, but as Professor Sir Michael Marmot has shown, that is no surprise after 14 years of austerity and its impact on our public services.”
Topical Questions · 2026-04-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. Young people with special educational needs or disabilities, and with multiple disadvantage, are three times more likely to be not in education, employment or training. I appreciate what my right hon.”
Schools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and Thriving · 2026-02-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
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