Biography
Lord Swire has engaged on end of life care, elderly care, and mental health primarily through debate speeches. He contributed to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill debate, expressing that the profound ethical issues warrant careful scrutiny, and raised concerns about hospice funding and staffing during the National Insurance Contributions debate, noting the exceptional care these facilities provide particularly for children.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…That leaves me with a sense of profound unease. Surely, we should be spending more time, effort and money on palliative care, end-of-life care and social care. That should be where we are concentrating all our efforts and energies.”
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care294th of 5684.0
- Elderly care & frailty166th of 2362.0
- Mental health750th of 8802.0
What they’ve said
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“…It triggered a memory for me. I was approached by the Children’s Hospice South West for a fundraiser —my goodness, I think it was 15 years ago—and managed to raise a record amount by putting on an event for it. I saw for myself the astonishing job that hospices do.”
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill · 2025-02-04 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I do not agree with the noble Lord, Lord Desai; we are now signing off many more people for all kinds of mental health reasons. I read a very good article by the noble Lord, Lord Rose of Monewden, who said that working from home is a disaster and that in his opinion the country has gone back 20 years in the past four.”
Economic Growth · 2025-01-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
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