Biography
Lord Knight of Weymouth has engaged substantially with education policy through seven debate speeches and committee work, with a particular focus on teacher training, early intervention in schools, and digital technology's impact on young people. While he has declared interests across multiple education-related organizations, his contributions on the three specified health and social care topics—mental health, learning disability and autism, and cancer—are not substantiated in the provided Hansard extracts. His engagement appears concentrated on education and employment rather than the health and social care areas tracked.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…nment gap between poorer children and their peers stood as wide as it did three decades ago, and a generation’s mental health was left to fray: close to 1 million children were referred to mental health services in a single year, yet fewer than a third were seen.”
Record by topic
- Mental health289th of 88012.5
- Learning disability & autism592nd of 8994.0
- Cancer503rd of 6222.0
What they’ve said
“…We must act urgently to prevent this consigning a generation to fester in their bedrooms, spiralling into mental health crisis as their addiction to phones gets deeper and darker. AI has no ethics, none of Heidegger’s mortality or self-awareness.”
Artificial Intelligence: Impact on Human Relationships and Society · 2026-06-05 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…As a result, we are identifying more pupils with special educational needs but fewer are going on to have education, health and care plans. That gives me optimism in the basis for early intervention in these reforms and that it will work. My question to my noble friend is around the seven specialist provision packages.”
Schools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and Thriving · 2026-02-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…It is important that people should understand and be trained around special educational needs. It is important that they should be trained around physical literacy, as was explored by the noble Baronesses, Lady Grey-Thompson and Lady Sater, in their important speeches.”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-09-10 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…tion published a large study tracking more than 4,000 adolescents and finding that the smartphone risk to youth mental health is primarily linked to the addictive use of smartphones, social media or video games.”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-06-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…g learning must not be solely about skills for growth; it must also be for family learning and for physical and mental health. It must include the arts and humanities, passion-based learning, sports and craft skills.”
Lifelong Learning · 2025-02-06 · Read on Hansard ↗
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