Biography
Lord Hogan-Howe has engaged substantially with end-of-life and children's health issues, speaking in debate on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to support choice for those facing terminal illness, and raising concerns about inadequate support for parents of seriously ill children beyond the neonatal period during Employment Rights Bill discussions. He has also contributed speeches on NHS treatment of rare and life-threatening conditions in children, maternity leave provisions, and ambulance service infrastructure, alongside committee work on broader policy matters.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…s that we could have been confused about in hearing the debate today is that the police are investigating every stillbirth and every miscarriage, which is not the case. If the death takes place or the child’s life is lost in a medical setting, usually the police are never involved.”
Record by topic
- A&E & ambulance response97th of 2584.0
- Maternity & neonatal220th of 4384.0
- Learning disability & autism746th of 8992.5
- Children's health131st of 1572.0
- Rare diseases170th of 2022.0
- Palliative & end of life care452nd of 5682.0
- Public health & prevention573rd of 6882.0
- Assisted dying277th of 3712.0
What they’ve said
“My Lords, I broadly support the Bill, as there is an awful lot in it to be commended. I would not agree with everything that the Liberal Democrats have said about access to more data, certainly not facial recognition, but I think that there are some steps in the right direction.”
Crime and Policing Bill · 2025-10-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Those who oppose this Bill say that better palliative care should remove the need for assisted dying. I do not accept that, because there have been too many cases where palliative care did not work. I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Stevens, in particular, who said that we should have far more palliative care.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2025-09-12 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…It fails to provide adequate, immediate support for parents whose children fall seriously ill. Although the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act rightly recognised the need for non-means tested leave and pay when a child is critically ill at or shortly after birth, that protection vanishes as the child grows older.”
Employment Rights Bill · 2025-05-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
“We probably ought to name one of them after him. But they do not grow on trees; they do not arrive in do-it-yourself kits and Amazon has no Prime delivery options. It takes a while.”
Ukraine (International Relations and Defence Committee Report) · 2025-03-06 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…may not know this, but this is essentially about moving the police emergency services, the fire brigade and the ambulance service from a radio network to a mobile phone network. That should have been delivered in 2017, but here we are in 2025 and we do not yet have an implementation date.”
Emergency Service Network Programme · 2025-02-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
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