Biography
Lord Lemos has not raised any of the five listed health and social care topics (maternity & neonatal, public health & prevention, heart disease & stroke, mental health, or NHS & care workforce/staffing) in the provided Hansard extracts. His recent contributions, delivered as seven debate speeches between March 2025 and September 2026, focus primarily on criminal justice, sentencing, children's social care within detention settings, and public accountability matters, rather than health and social care policy.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…The Post Office Horizon scandal, infected blood, Grenfell and, most recently, the shocking Nottingham maternity scandal all involved a lack of candour and efforts to conceal the truth. In some cases, attempts were even made to create false narratives against the victims.”
Record by topic
- Mental health603rd of 8804.0
- Public health & prevention373rd of 6884.0
- Heart disease & stroke324th of 3982.0
- Maternity & neonatal363rd of 4382.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing236th of 3022.0
What they’ve said
“I do not think I have anything to add. There is a long history of the use of the term “donor” to characterise providers of overseas aid, but we are not debating that now, if the noble Lord will forgive me. I do not really recognise the characterisation he is putting forward.”
UK Development Partnership Assistance · 2026-01-29 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, I join with others in congratulating the two new Peers on their maiden speeches. It is with great pleasure that I welcome my noble friend Lady Hyde of Bemerton to her place in your Lordships’ House and congratulate her on a really inspiring and wonderful maiden speech.”
UK Development Partnership Assistance · 2026-01-29 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The Chief Whip would have a heart attack, and I understand that he has plans for the weekend. It would also bring my late-blooming political career to an abrupt end.”
Licensing Hours Extensions Bill · 2026-01-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I hope it will also reassure your Lordships that the Mental Health Bill, which the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, referred to, is now in the other place. It includes a reform to end the use of remand for one’s own protection under the Bail Act where the court’s sole concern is the defendant’s mental health.”
Sentencing Bill · 2025-12-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…All these children are well known to local authority children’s services, and often to criminal justice and mental health services. Many have moved more than 10 times while in care. They have faced trauma, violence, crime, sexual exploitation, parental neglect, rejection, abandonment and criminal exploitation.”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-05-01 · Read on Hansard ↗
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