Biography
Lord Harper has engaged extensively on health and social care through 38 debate speeches, with particular focus on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill where he raised detailed questions about safeguards, funding equity, and professional obligations across multiple committee stages. His contributions also addressed acute care for people with learning disabilities, NHS capacity to implement new dementia treatments, and the need for accountability measures in hospital systems. His engagement was characterised by technical scrutiny of legislative detail and probing questions to bill sponsors about implementation and unintended consequences.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…t the gaps are very significant, with something like 50% of hospitals not even being able to record a patient’s learning disability on their digital record, what are the Government doing to track progress on hitting these recommendations, and what are the accountability measures? If trusts do not deliver this quickly,…”
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care31st of 56844.0
- Assisted dying21st of 37142.0
- Mental health281st of 88014.0
- Learning disability & autism307th of 89912.0
- Cancer332nd of 6224.0
- Dementia211th of 2512.0
- Adult social care & reform312th of 3762.0
- NHS waiting lists467th of 5342.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing236th of 3022.0
What they’ve said
“…that she has set out for improving diagnosis are up to that challenge, so that we can reduce the proportion of dementia patients who do not receive a diagnosis—around a third—to much smaller levels?…”
NHS: Dementia Treatment Trials · 2026-06-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, in moving Amendment 108 in my name, I will also speak to Amendments 116 and 117, also in this group. I am afraid it is my group, I suppose. This seems an appropriate moment, given that it is about economic impacts and competition, to remind the Minister that when on Tuesday my noble friend Lord Moylan and I r…”
Civil Aviation (Consumer Protection and Regulatory Reform) Bill [HL] · 2026-06-18 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Moylan in two of his amendments. On Amendment 76, my noble friend made some very good points about making sure that we have a proper parliamentary process.”
Civil Aviation (Consumer Protection and Regulatory Reform) Bill [HL] · 2026-06-18 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…There are a couple of points. First, I strongly support Amendment 657, which says that assisted dying is not to be regarded as a medical treatment. As I said, I do not need to set out the details—the noble Lord, Lord Stevens, did that admirably.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…aised this with you, and you started discussing it, would you not be obliged, under your legal and professional suicide prevention duties to that child, to take steps to protect them? Under the Bill, they would not be eligible to have an assisted suicide.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
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