Biography
Jeremy Corbyn has engaged extensively on health and social care through 13 debate speeches, raising topics including NHS waiting lists, adult social care reform, mental health, and disability support. His contributions have focused on concerns about underfunding and privatisation, including critiques of private finance initiative debt in hospitals, welfare reforms affecting disabled people, and calls for a public sector national care service rather than privatised provision. He has also raised health-related issues in the context of international crises, particularly regarding healthcare delivery in Gaza.
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“…I would rather not name because I think he deserves privacy, who suffers from advanced motor neurone disease. He is in a very bad way. He is getting nursing care from the local health service, and that is good. I have written several times to the Home Office asking that his family in Nigeria be allowed to visit.”
Record by topic
- Mental health290th of 88012.0
- Learning disability & autism367th of 89911.0
- NHS waiting lists140th of 5349.0
- Adult social care & reform99th of 3766.0
- Public health & prevention417th of 6883.0
- Children's health56th of 1573.0
- Rare diseases80th of 2023.0
What they’ve said
“…In other words, 80% of the development will not be available for people on the housing waiting list, or the needs register, as it is usually referred to. That drives many people who cannot get council housing and cannot afford to buy into the private rented sector.”
Debate on the Address · 2026-05-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…ility to access council or housing association accommodation is extremely limited, because there is an enormous waiting list with a terrible stress level and shortage of housing. Essentially, to be allocated council housing, a person must have quite profound special needs.”
Housing Needs: Young People · 2026-04-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Communicable diseases will get worse, the sewerage system will get worse and the mental health trauma for future generations will not go away. I remember talking to Dr Mona El-Farra on the day after the 2006 election in Gaza, at which I was an observer.”
Gaza Healthcare System · 2026-02-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I will be brief, Ms McVey. I simply say this: anyone who has observed what has happened in Gaza over the past 18 months must be disgusted and appalled at what they have seen—the deaths of children, the deaths of adults and the continued bombardment—and at the role that Britain has played in supplying arms to Israel tha…”
Gaza: Humanitarian Obligations · 2025-11-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“By any measurement of humanity, the people of Gaza have suffered as grievously as anyone has ever suffered in any conflict in the world. More than 60,000 are already dead, with the rest living among rubble, starving and unable to get the basic needs of medical attention. That also affects children, as the right hon.”
Gaza: Humanitarian Obligations · 2025-11-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
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