Biography
Jim Allister has engaged primarily through 22 debate speeches across eight health and social care topics, with particular focus on end-of-life care and the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, on which he raised concerns about cost comparisons with palliative care spending and questioned the shift from suicide prevention funding to facilitating assisted dying. He also raised questions about VAT on defibrillators, dentistry access affected by supply chain regulations, and medicines availability including for diabetics, alongside broader parliamentary procedure concerns regarding Lords scrutiny of the assisted dying legislation.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Member for Sunderland Central (Lewis Atkinson) introduced the debate, he said that it was not about the assisted dying Bill; he proceeded for the next 25 minutes to talk about little else.”
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care80th of 56818.0
- Learning disability & autism253rd of 89915.0
- Adult social care & reform99th of 3766.0
- Dentistry access65th of 1946.0
- Mental health481st of 8806.0
- Assisted dying193rd of 3713.0
- Heart disease & stroke174th of 3983.0
- Diabetes68th of 1903.0
What they’ve said
“…If they do, then we are back to where we started: NHS dentistry would face collapse, because we cannot possibly afford the alternatives, according to the dentists. The regulation is riddled with absurd inconsistencies.”
Draft Control of Mercury (Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 · 2025-10-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…correct that if the original ban date of 2026 had been adhered to, according to the British Dental Association, NHS dentistry in Northern Ireland would have collapsed, because dental amalgam with mercury is the cheapest and quickest form of filling.”
Draft Control of Mercury (Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 · 2025-10-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We know from the statistics that the chances of surviving a heart attack that takes place outside a hospital setting are low—maybe as low as 8%—but that if a defibrillator is available, the chance of survival can increase by 70%.”
Defibrillators · 2025-09-02 · Read on Hansard ↗
“The right hon. Member makes a key point. When people bring business-to-business parcels into Northern Ireland from their own country, from GB, and those parcels are decreed—as the presumption is—to be at risk of going into the European single market in their ultimate manifestation, when manufactured, they have to not o…”
Windsor Framework: Parcel Delivery · 2025-04-30 · Read on Hansard ↗
“The Secretary of State ignores the impact on consumers of the general product safety regulation, which requires the business in GB that is sending to Northern Ireland to have an agent in Northern Ireland and to be in a trusted trader scheme—all the things that are totally alien to supposedly being in the same single ma…”
Windsor Framework: Parcel Delivery · 2025-04-30 · Read on Hansard ↗
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