Biography
Lord Hain engaged on health and social care topics through three debate speeches in the Lords. His contributions focused on critiquing the previous Conservative government's economic record and its impact on public services, including the NHS, alongside broader discussions on housing, homelessness, and House of Lords reform. The extracts provided do not contain substantive discussion of the four health topics listed (NHS waiting lists, GP access, public health and prevention, learning disability and autism).
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…It is why NHS waiting lists are so long, why GP appointments are so difficult to get, why our prisons are full to overcrowding and so on. The Tories’ addiction to public spending cuts was driven by a misplaced faith in neoliberalism, an obsession with cutting the size of the state, reducing the role of government in ru…”
Record by topic
- NHS waiting lists302nd of 5344.0
- GP access205th of 2412.0
- Learning disability & autism756th of 8992.0
- Public health & prevention573rd of 6882.0
What they’ve said
“…housing shortage which has been pushing up house prices and making private rents unaffordable, creating mammoth waiting lists for social housing and driving up the annual housing benefit bill, as the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, pointed out earlier.”
Housing Supply and Homelessness · 2024-12-05 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, seven years ago, on 19 December 2017, I said in your Lordships’ House—and I apologise for quoting myself but there is a reason—that “we all know that things cannot continue as they are. We number over 800 and rising … we have become not so much an embarrassment but, many say, a scandal.”
House of Lords Reform · 2024-11-12 · Read on Hansard ↗
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