Biography
Lord Scriven has engaged extensively on health and social care through 40 debate speeches, with particular focus on learning disability and autism—notably championing statutory independent reviews of deaths among people with learning disabilities to address a 20-year life expectancy gap. His contributions span multiple interconnected areas including workforce staffing, maternity safety, unpaid carers' support, and digital accessibility for vulnerable populations, often linking systemic failures to preventable harms. His engagement combines direct questioning of government policy with advocacy for structural reform, as exemplified by his criticism of non-statutory reviews and calls for improved financial transparency across integrated care boards.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death report Acute illness in people with a learning disability, published on 11 June; and whether they intend to ensure those recommendations are implemented by NHS Trusts.…”
Record by topic
- Mental health100th of 88036.0
- Learning disability & autism138th of 89928.0
- Palliative & end of life care100th of 56816.0
- Public health & prevention89th of 68816.0
- Adult social care & reform39th of 37612.0
- Health inequalities45th of 28810.0
- Dentistry access65th of 1946.0
- Cancer230th of 6226.0
- GP access49th of 2416.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing103rd of 3024.0
- Children's health50th of 1574.0
- Maternity & neonatal220th of 4384.0
- A&E & ambulance response97th of 2584.0
- Rare diseases170th of 2022.0
- Dementia211th of 2512.0
- Unpaid carers243rd of 2832.0
- NHS waiting lists467th of 5342.0
- Diabetes154th of 1902.0
What they’ve said
“My Lords, enough is enough. Currently, with everything in place, people living with a learning disability still die on average 20 years earlier than their non-learning disabled peers.”
People with Learning Disabilities: Acute Illness · 2026-07-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…In its report, Safety, Equity and Expertise, the RCN warned that the specialist learning disability nursing workforce is in absolute crisis. In autumn 2025—the first academic intake under this Government—we see a catastrophic collapse in the pipeline.”
Healthcare Services: Acute, Primary and Community · 2026-06-25 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, following on from my noble friend’s question and the Minister’s answer, there is no definition in the department of preventable spending. Will the new modern service framework determine a definition of what preventable spending is so that it can be tracked over time to see whether prevention is becoming the n…”
Resistant Hypertension · 2026-06-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Yet in the answer to a recent FoI request, 80% of ICBs indicated that they could not identify their spending on learning disability services. Will the Minister acknowledge that without the basic financial data, the current system provides a perfect screen for ICBs to quietly raid learning disability budgets to cover ac…”
Integrated Care Boards: Budgets · 2026-06-17 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, people with a learning disability enter periods of multimorbidity and chronic illness 20 to 30 years earlier than those without a learning disability. What are the Government going to do to stop this national scandal?”
Healthy Life Expectancy: England · 2026-05-18 · Read on Hansard ↗
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