Lord Hain
House of Lords
LabourOverall, across health & social care this Parliament
Found a pulse
Ranks 973rd of 1273 MPs and peers who have spoken on health or care this Parliament — top 76%. 3 contributions since 2024-11-12.
Record by topic
- NHS waiting lists289th of 5304.0
- GP access199th of 2322.0
- Learning disability & autism812th of 9672.0
- Public health & prevention613th of 7342.0
What they’ve said
“…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…”
Finance Bill · 2025-03-19 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…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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