Biography
Lord Young of Acton has engaged on health and social care topics primarily through debate speeches in the House of Lords, with a particular focus on the impact of school closures on children's wellbeing during public health emergencies, which he raised multiple times across 2025-2026. He has also contributed to debates on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, expressing concerns about palliative care provision and the availability of qualified practitioners to deliver assisted dying services, drawing on perspectives from his sister who works as an NHS nurse in palliative care.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Amendment 207 would create a statutory duty to keep schools open for in-person attendance in future public health and other civil emergencies for all pupils, not just vulnerable children and children of key workers, unless Parliament expressly approves any closures and continues to do so every two weeks.”
Record by topic
- Mental health603rd of 8804.0
- Public health & prevention373rd of 6884.0
- Learning disability & autism756th of 8992.0
- Assisted dying277th of 3712.0
- Palliative & end of life care452nd of 5682.0
- Rare diseases170th of 2022.0
- Cancer503rd of 6222.0
What they’ve said
“Surely the signal that scrapping hate crime from British law would send is not that we do not care about vulnerable groups but that we think they should enjoy the same legal protections as everyone else, and that everyone should be equal in the eyes of the law.”
Crime and Policing Bill · 2026-01-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, Amendment 502M would create a statutory duty to keep schools open for in-person attendance in future public health and other civil emergencies, unless Parliament expressly approves any closures and continues to approve them every two weeks.”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-09-18 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, suggested that the effect of the Bill on palliative care would be to improve it. That is not the view of my sister, an NHS nurse who has spent much of her career working in palliative care.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2025-09-12 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I regret to say that the staff most at risk of being made redundant across the sector are specialist SEND support staff. So much for this Government wanting to do more for children with SEND, and so much for wanting to find 6,500 more teachers.”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-05-01 · Read on Hansard ↗
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