Biography
Lord Moynihan has primarily engaged through debate speeches across nine health and social care topics, with a notable focus on the intersection of sport, physical activity and public health outcomes including cardiovascular disease, obesity prevention, and mental wellbeing. His contributions have emphasised the importance of physical exercise as a preventive health measure and advocated for sport and recreation to be embedded within health policy rather than treated as a separate concern. He has also made personal interventions on assisted dying, drawing on his family's historical involvement in end-of-life legislation debates.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“I support my noble friend Lord Holmes’s amendment. Just over a year ago, Jarrod Bleijie, who is the Deputy Premier and Minister for State Development in Queensland, came to visit this House and listened intently to a debate on sport.”
Record by topic
- Mental health481st of 8806.0
- Health inequalities80th of 2886.0
- Learning disability & autism466th of 8996.0
- Public health & prevention373rd of 6884.0
- Heart disease & stroke150th of 3984.0
- Diabetes62nd of 1904.0
- Cancer503rd of 6222.0
- Palliative & end of life care452nd of 5682.0
- Assisted dying277th of 3712.0
What they’ve said
“I am in agreement with the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, on these amendments. I think she was very wise to bring this before the Committee, because this is a case where many of the international governing bodies and federations— the IOC in particular—have taken a lead.”
Sporting Events Bill [HL] · 2026-06-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, a former chairman of the British Olympic Association from 2005 through 2012, and, throughout those seven years, a member of the International Olympic Committee, which had oversight of the Games.”
Sporting Events Bill [HL] · 2026-06-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…this hour—already has a statutory responsibility and a strategic duty to promote health improvement and reduce health inequalities, primarily through its role in increasing participation in sport and physical activity among underserved and less active groups.”
Planning and Infrastructure Bill · 2025-11-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The Voluntary Euthanasia (Legalisation) Bill 1936, introduced under the society’s aegis, was fathered and written by my grandfather. Berkeley Moynihan was the leading surgeon of his generation. As surgeon-general in the First World War, he had the unenviable job of overseeing medical treatment along the Western Front.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2025-09-19 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…would the measurement we are talking about benefit the well-being of young people? It would promote children’s mental health, enhance learning outcomes, promote fairness, strengthen accountability and build a healthier and fitter society. It would have long-term social benefits.”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-09-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
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