Biography

Lee Anderson has engaged with health and social care topics primarily through 13 debate speeches, addressing rare diseases (notably Ehlers-Danlos syndrome), sepsis awareness, student mental health, and preventable baby loss. His contributions have often connected health issues to constituent concerns, such as discussing a young constituent with a rare condition and highlighting youth suicide in Ashfield. Beyond health topics, his parliamentary engagement has focused substantially on housing, immigration, and social order issues.

Generated from their own Hansard record, below

…There should be a separate licensing agreement or a tier for agents housing higher-risk people—people with mental health problems, vulnerable adults and so on. There should be access for licensed HMO managers to proper safeguarding tools—as I said before, DBS checks and access to Clare’s law.

Houses in Multiple Occupation · 2026-04-28 · Hansard ↗

Record by topic

  1. Mental health290th of 88012.0
  2. NHS waiting lists140th of 5349.0
  3. Heart disease & stroke174th of 3983.0
  4. Diabetes68th of 1903.0
  5. A&E & ambulance response107th of 2583.0
  6. Maternity & neonatal238th of 4383.0
  7. Rare diseases80th of 2023.0
  8. Learning disability & autism654th of 8993.0
  9. Cancer365th of 6223.0

What they’ve said

  • …I am still waiting to be seen by wheelchair services and have been on the waiting list for 18 months. My chair was brought by my parents but is no longer fit for purpose. I am not eligible for an electric wheelchair as I am classed as an ambulatory user.

    Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Craniocervical Instability · 2026-03-26 · Read on Hansard ↗

  • It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Twigg. I give huge thanks to the hon. Member for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans) for securing this very important debate.

    Minister for Men and Boys · 2026-02-25 · Read on Hansard ↗

  • …Meanwhile, we have a million Brits stuck on the council house waiting list. Yet anybody who calls that out—anybody who disagrees with that lot over there on the Labour Benches—is labelled a far-right racist.

    Call for General Election · 2026-01-12 · Read on Hansard ↗

  • Last week, I met an amazing lady, Rachel Williams, who after 10 years of suffering domestic abuse decided to leave her partner. Just a short while after, he entered the salon where she worked and shot her from two feet away with a shotgun.

    Violence against Women and Girls Strategy · 2025-12-15 · Read on Hansard ↗

  • The building of more council houses throughout the UK is welcome news, especially in Ashfield, where we have 7,000 people on the waiting list. Does the Minister agree that when we are dishing these houses out, British-born, hard-working taxpayers should be prioritised?

    Social Housing · 2025-03-03 · Read on Hansard ↗

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