Biography
# Lord Gascoigne Lord Gascoigne has engaged with health and social care issues primarily through debate speeches in the House of Lords, with contributions spanning topics including mental health, learning disability and autism, maternity and neonatal care, cancer, health inequalities, and palliative and end-of-life care. The provided extracts do not contain substantive engagement on these specific health topics, instead showing speeches on devolution, trade, planning and protected species, and employment rights.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…res strategic authorities to produce local growth plans, to take responsibility for regeneration and to address health inequalities. We have talked about these objectives many times, including at Second Reading, and we support them all, but the broad powers and money to deliver them are not being handed down at the sam…”
Record by topic
- Maternity & neonatal220th of 4384.0
- Cancer503rd of 6222.0
- Health inequalities245th of 2882.0
- Learning disability & autism756th of 8992.0
- Mental health750th of 8802.0
- Palliative & end of life care452nd of 5682.0
What they’ve said
“My Lords, it is a great honour to follow the noble Baroness. The problem with speaking so far down a list of many eminent speakers is that, I am afraid, a lot of the good stuff I was going to say has already been said—but I am still going to crack on.”
Israel: Trade · 2026-01-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…In particular, some bat species have strong attachments to specific maternity roosts and must not be disturbed, while certain bird species, such as the barn owl, establish territories and return to the same nesting sites year after year.”
Planning and Infrastructure Bill · 2025-09-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…ot comprehend the pain and agony of people who have been told that their children are seriously ill and require palliative care. There is then the impossible decision, as the noble Baroness said, of what to do about work.”
Employment Rights Bill · 2025-07-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
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