Lord Falconer of Thoroton
House of Lords
LabourOverall, across health & social care this Parliament
Alive and kicking!
Ranks 52nd of 1273 MPs and peers who have spoken on health or care this Parliament — top 4%. 102 contributions since 2025-09-12.
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care7th of 573170.0
- Mental health134th of 86924.0
- Cancer92nd of 61316.0
- Learning disability & autism308th of 96716.0
- Rare diseases44th of 1986.0
- Diabetes59th of 1874.0
- Elderly care & frailty156th of 2272.0
- Health inequalities233rd of 2772.0
What they’ve said
“…The first is that of Elise Burns, who is in the Gallery today. She has terminal cancer. She said that she would love Peers “to look me in the eye and tell me why me and my friends, and anyone with terminal illness, don’t deserve to die with dignity and to have the choice to die as they choose, without pain”.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-04-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Members of the public, who support assisted dying by a very large margin, will be asking themselves why Parliament has failed to enact a measure that they believed would and should become law after Members of Parliament voted in favour of it in the other place.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-04-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I apologise for intervening but I completely agree with what the noble Baroness has just said. The way in which that would happen is that the Bill would come back from the Commons and we would agree here to put in the amendments that I put in as a result of the power of the noble Baroness’s speeches.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-04-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…ter, in the public domain, the names of people who are willing, and therefore people who are not willing, to do assisted dying.…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-27 ·