Biography
Lord Watts has made three debate speeches on health and social care topics, focusing on learning disability and autism employment alongside palliative and end-of-life care. On autism, he argued that children with autism have different rather than special needs and that employers benefit from providing appropriate support. On end-of-life care, he highlighted the reality that some terminally ill patients continue to experience pain and suffering despite access to hospice care and medication.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Minister seen the drama “Patience”, which traces the actions of a young woman with autism? It demonstrates that you need to have special provision for such people but that it can be very rewarding to employers if they make that provision.”
Record by topic
- Learning disability & autism756th of 8992.0
- Palliative & end of life care452nd of 5682.0
What they’ve said
“Would the noble Baroness agree for one second that, even if someone has good hospice care and the best medications that they can, there are still patients who suffer and have pain before death, despite all the actions of the people who are trying to alleviate that?”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2025-11-21 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I agree that there is a lot of information out there, but I would like to see it scrutinised more professionally. Part of the problem we heard in the committee was that access to data made it difficult for the academic studies that were carried out to find the evidence needed.”
Gambling Levy Regulations 2025 · 2025-02-12 · Read on Hansard ↗
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