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ConservativeOverall, across health & social care this Parliament
Alive and kicking!
Ranks 247th of 1273 MPs and peers who have spoken on health or care this Parliament — top 19%. 38 contributions since 2024-07-29.
“My Lords, I am beginning to feel slightly left out. I have not been the beneficiary of a large amount of correspondence from the Minister in the way other noble Lords scattered around the Chamber appear to have been.”
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · 2026-03-26 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…addington, that the language of combat and struggle is really not appropriate for people who are suffering from cancer. I never use it myself and, although I quoted Professor Gould using it in my speech, it is not the natural language that I would propose.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…If you have had stage 4 cancer, they will not use the word “cured”, but I am as close to cured as you can be, and I am in complete metabolic remission. I still have 18 years to go on the bargain I struck with my oncologist.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, I am not saying—nor was anybody—that a positive attitude on its own is going to save somebody from cancer. Professor Gould also benefited from the fact that he had the best medical treatment, and he went on various experimental courses. That was not my point at all.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…cussed prognosis briefly in previous debates, but I wanted to raise this in the context of my own experience of cancer and to bring some sort of mathematical thinking to bear on the question. In August 2023, I was diagnosed with stage 4 oesophageal cancer.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…levant courses, we add to subsection (3), after the words “in England or Wales”, “who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness”. I should have thought that the noble and learned Lord would be willing to add that in the interests of clarity, to try to straighten out some of the complexities that the Bill, through its…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
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