Lord Vallance of Balham
House of Lords
LabourOverall, across health & social care this Parliament
Found a pulse
Ranks 861st of 1273 MPs and peers who have spoken on health or care this Parliament — top 68%. 5 contributions since 2024-07-22.
Record by topic
- Cancer224th of 6136.0
- Heart disease & stroke146th of 3874.0
- Dementia206th of 2452.0
- Learning disability & autism812th of 9672.0
- Mental health741st of 8692.0
What they’ve said
“…It is quite an extraordinary resource that improves health in many of the ways described, such as predicting dementia and early warning signs for cancer, or finding genetic markers for stroke.”
UK Biobank Data · 2026-04-28 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, I now turn to government Amendment 49. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and other noble Lords for raising the concerns of the charity sector during earlier debates. The Government have also heard from charities and trade associations directly.”
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] · 2025-01-21 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…tart to make research in children more difficult—for example, if research on children with a particular type of cancer found something in those children that was relevant to another cancer, this would preclude the use of that data—that cannot be right for children.”
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] · 2025-01-21 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Some of these new centres have specified areas, such as mental health and multi-morbidity, but there is a whole round which is unspecified, allowing for people to put forward ideas of their own for units of the future, which I believe will be important for the very reason the noble Lord says.…”
Specialised Research Units: Closures · 2024-10-28 · Read on Hansard ↗