Biography
Kirsty Blackman has engaged with health and social care topics primarily through debate speeches across diverse areas including mental health, learning disabilities, cancer, NHS waiting lists, and maternity services. Her contributions have often connected these issues to broader policy concerns, such as linking mental health and severe conditions criteria to Universal Credit and PIP eligibility, and raising child poverty's impact on health outcomes. She has also highlighted specific gaps in online safety protections for vulnerable groups and advocated for co-production of policy with people with lived experience.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…If they are booked into the NHS—taken into hospital, or into a mental health setting and sectioned—they will have to say to the doctor and the medical staff, “I was assigned female at birth.” They will have to make that clear; their right to privacy is gone.”
Record by topic
- Mental health159th of 88021.0
- Cancer98th of 62215.0
- Learning disability & autism382nd of 8999.0
- NHS waiting lists207th of 5346.0
- Heart disease & stroke75th of 3986.0
- Palliative & end of life care213th of 5686.0
- Dentistry access100th of 1943.0
- Public health & prevention417th of 6883.0
- Maternity & neonatal238th of 4383.0
What they’ve said
“Only one clause in this legislation applied to Scotland in advance of it returning from the Lords. Lords amendment 38 contains a reserved power that would apply across the whole UK the changes that are being suggested to the Online Safety Act. I want to focus specifically on those changes.”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2026-03-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I asked her Government to ban eating disorder forums that encourage eating disorders. Her Government refused to do that in the Online Safety Act 2023, despite our asking for it to happen.”
Online Harm: Child Protection · 2026-02-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…For people who live in poverty, without family support or with poor mental health, one mistake can mean very quickly spiralling into an un-rescuable situation. That is how I think about privilege: those situations are not anybody’s fault.”
Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill · 2026-02-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“The Secretary of State’s colleagues stood with WASPI women holding boards saying, “We support the WASPI women” and “We support compensation for the WASPI women”. He now stands at the Dispatch Box holding his hands up and saying, “I am very sorry that the previous Administration forgot to send out a letter, but we are n…”
Women’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO Report · 2026-01-29 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I back the Minister’s comments about the effectiveness of public health on BBC Radio 4 this morning. I agree about the importance of conducting a public health campaign for this. Women for Refugee Women has surveyed women in the asylum system with no recourse to public funds.”
Violence against Women and Girls Strategy · 2025-12-18 · Read on Hansard ↗
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