Biography
Emily Thornberry raised four health and social care topics across five contributions, primarily through debate speeches in the Commons. Her engagement focused on maternity and neonatal issues, where she highlighted inconsistencies in maternity leave entitlements between nurses and doctors across NHS employers, noting this inequality would worsen as services move into the community. She also raised diabetes and broader health concerns in the context of Jimmy Lai's imprisonment, though this was secondary to her primary focus on NHS maternity provision.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“Jimmy Lai is 78. He has rotting teeth. He has diabetes, heart issues, and recently he has visibly been losing weight. He has now been sentenced to 20 years. It is effectively not a life sentence, but a death sentence.”
Record by topic
- Maternity & neonatal138th of 4386.0
- Diabetes68th of 1903.0
- Learning disability & autism654th of 8993.0
- NHS waiting lists323rd of 5343.0
What they’ve said
“…off at night, nobody is on the voter register —they are just there, and they laugh at the 17,000 people on the waiting list in Islington who desperately need social housing. Those are Islington people who want to live in Islington, and there is no space for them.”
House Building: London · 2025-11-05 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I begin by thanking the Prime Minister for what he has said about Gaza. The message he is sending to Netanyahu’s far-right Government could not be clearer, and it should have the unanimous support of this House.”
UK-EU Summit · 2025-05-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. Doctors throughout the NHS, no matter who employs them, have blanket maternity agreements, but nurses do not. When I visited the River Place health centre, I found that nurses employed by Whittington Health were working alongside nurses employed by the GP practice who got completely dif…”
Maternity Leave · 2025-01-07 · Read on Hansard ↗
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