Biography
Ian Murray has engaged extensively on health and social care through 25 debate speeches, with contributions spanning rare diseases, cancer, heart disease, mental health, dementia, NHS waiting lists, workforce staffing, and adult social care. His recent interventions have focused on medical research infrastructure, particularly UK Biobank's role in discovering treatments for heart disease, cancer and dementia, as well as public health regulation including online safety protections and gambling harms affecting young people. He has also commented on NHS performance in Scotland, noting record cancer waiting times and widespread waiting lists.
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“…Many advances in medical research are happening with AI enhancement at the moment, including on motor neurone disease and how the brain operates, as I know from my constituency. AI and advances in technology will be a key part of how we phase out the use of animal testing. The hon.”
Record by topic
- NHS waiting lists31st of 53424.0
- Cancer66th of 62221.0
- Mental health188th of 88018.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing41st of 3029.0
- Heart disease & stroke75th of 3986.0
- Maternity & neonatal138th of 4386.0
- Public health & prevention417th of 6883.0
- Adult social care & reform186th of 3763.0
- Assisted dying193rd of 3713.0
- Rare diseases80th of 2023.0
- Dementia108th of 2513.0
What they’ve said
“…e potential to reduce the use of dogs and non-human primates in assessing the pre-clinical pharmacokinetics and cardiovascular safety of new medicines. We are building the collaboration and infrastructure needed to scale up alternatives into everyday research and development and safety assessments where it is safe and…”
Animal Testing · 2026-04-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…It also receives significant funding from Cancer Research UK, the British Heart Foundation and the National Institute for Health and Care Research. That shows the breadth of research that it does on all the key diseases that we suffer from in this country, and it is resolving some of these problems.”
UK Biobank Data · 2026-04-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…That includes discovering genes that affect the risk of heart disease or cancer, identifying new ways of predicting dementia, identifying early warning signs for cancers, understanding immunity to covid-19, and work towards earlier detection of Parkinson’s.”
UK Biobank Data · 2026-04-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…try—this is the kind of stuff that has been detected—online questionnaires data; sleep; diet; work environment; mental health, and health outcomes data. The shadow Minister asked whether there are identifiers for individuals.”
UK Biobank Data · 2026-04-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The hon. Member for Aberdeen North was absolutely right to talk about eating disorders and suicide. I have heard some absolutely horrific stories—unimaginable stories that nobody could write in their wildest dreams—about online grooming, mainly of young girls, and mainly on platforms on which they are already vulnerabl…”
Online Harm: Child Protection · 2026-02-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
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