Biography
Lord Garnier has engaged with health and social care topics primarily through debate speeches in the Lords. His contributions have focused on end-of-life care, speaking on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill regarding the role of a commissioner, and on mental health protection, co-signing an amendment to address "quack counsellors" who exploit vulnerable people through coercive behaviour. He also addressed mental trauma and emergency services support in the context of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“My Lords, only someone who was there on the night of the Grenfell Tower fire or who experienced the loss of a loved one in that disaster can truly understand what it must have been like to suffer the physical and emotional losses that it caused.”
Record by topic
- Assisted dying277th of 3712.0
- Mental health750th of 8802.0
- Palliative & end of life care452nd of 5682.0
- Public health & prevention573rd of 6882.0
What they’ve said
“…It is more constitutionally appropriate for the voluntary assisted dying commissioner to be appointed, as so many other judicial and quasi-judicial posts are, by the sovereign on the recommendation of the Lord Chancellor.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-02-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Lordships’ House on 2 March 2020 in the debate on the unregulated treatment of mental health, and then again on 2 February 2021, with the noble Lord, Lord Marks, and the noble Baroness, Lady Jolly, on the Domestic Abuse Bill.”
Crime and Policing Bill · 2025-12-17 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, I declare an interest, in that I have been practising at the defamation Bar since the mid-1970s. Much has been said in this House and in Committee about the need for SLAPP laws.”
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation · 2024-07-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
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