Biography

Lord Wallace of Saltaire has not made contributions on the four topics specified (elderly care & frailty, public health & prevention, learning disability & autism, or NHS & care workforce/staffing). The four debate speeches provided address constitutional reform, devolution and public safety, House of Lords composition, and Civil Service productivity respectively, with no substantive engagement on health and social care matters.

Generated from their own Hansard record, below

…ocracy but does nothing to address the domestic threats, both from the depth of public disillusion and from the frailty of our constitutional safeguards against abuse of the executive power. Public mistrust in Westminster politics, even in democracy as such, continues to rise.

Record by topic

  1. Elderly care & frailty166th of 2362.0
  2. Learning disability & autism756th of 8992.0
  3. Public health & prevention573rd of 6882.0
  4. NHS & care workforce/staffing236th of 3022.0

What they’ve said

  • …So, I am glad to see public safety here. I recall that when the Salisbury poisoning took place, the public health officer in Salisbury played a vital and impressive role in sorting out its response.

    English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · 2026-01-20 · Read on Hansard ↗

  • My Lords, I declare an interest: for five years, I was an unpaid Lords Minister and Whip in the coalition Government. When we have a coalition Government—we may very well find ourselves with a rather messy coalition after the next election—there may be an argument for having a larger number of Ministers, because we hav…

    House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill · 2025-07-09 · Read on Hansard ↗

  • …If you have that gap, as with teachers and with junior doctors, retention becomes a problem. On the digital dimension, we have fallen a long way behind. That is, again, partly a failure of government.

    Public Sector Productivity · 2024-10-09 · Read on Hansard ↗

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