Biography

Lilian Greenwood has engaged primarily through 19 debate speeches across a range of health and social care topics, with particular focus on public health and prevention issues including road safety, accident prevention, and gambling advertising. The contributions show substantive engagement with accident prevention policy, including discussion of health inequalities in road safety risk and work-related mental health, alongside responses on disability support processes and air ambulance services. Notable recurring themes include her emphasis on protecting vulnerable populations and evidence-based policy approaches to preventing harm.

Generated from their own Hansard record, below

…The social security system will always be a cornerstone of our support for unpaid carers and parents of disabled children, but it is not the only way we can help. Rightly, this is something that we have been thinking about across Government.

Disability Living Allowance: Qualifying Period for Children · 2026-09-02 · Hansard ↗

Record by topic

  1. Public health & prevention125th of 68812.0
  2. Learning disability & autism307th of 89912.0
  3. Mental health386th of 8809.0
  4. Cancer230th of 6226.0
  5. Health inequalities80th of 2886.0
  6. Unpaid carers158th of 2833.0
  7. Dementia108th of 2513.0
  8. Maternity & neonatal238th of 4383.0
  9. A&E & ambulance response107th of 2583.0

What they’ve said

  • …a much more widespread problem of people suffering ill health, particularly relating to work-related stress and mental health. The best employers work really hard on those issues, often in consultation with their trade union health and safety reps.

    National Accident Prevention Strategy · 2026-04-28 · Read on Hansard ↗

  • …That includes a focus on prevention, such as rolling out a range of measures to tackle health inequalities and stop health problems at source. It also includes better use of data, such as the establishment of a data-led road safety investigation branch covering the whole of Great Britain, which will draw on data to car…

    National Accident Prevention Strategy · 2026-04-28 · Read on Hansard ↗

  • It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. I thank the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Sir Andrew Mitchell) for securing this debate. I am pleased to respond on behalf of the Government.

    National Accident Prevention Strategy · 2026-04-28 · Read on Hansard ↗

  • …Friend the Member for Worthing West for gambling to be considered from a public health perspective. This Government are committed to supporting a gambling industry that is modern, responsible and sustainable.

    Gambling Advertising · 2026-04-23 · Read on Hansard ↗

  • As the hon. Member will know, we are currently consulting on measures to protect young people from online harms. He is aware of that work, which is continuing. Of course we want to protect children and young people, but we need to make sure that any measures we bring in will be effective.

    Gambling Advertising · 2026-04-23 · Read on Hansard ↗

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