Biography
Martin Vickers has engaged extensively on end-of-life care and palliative services, most notably through multiple debate speeches on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in September 2026, drawing on personal experience of his mother's death and hospice care in his constituency. Across 23 debate speeches, he has raised diverse health and social care issues including cancer treatment access, radiotherapy provision, rare diseases like Huntington's disease, and prostate cancer screening, frequently anchoring points to specific gaps in service provision within his Brigg and Immingham constituency and the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Both of my parents died of cancer and suffered in their final months. I well remember the telephone call from the consultant after the tests on my father, when he said, “We must hope that God is merciful and does not allow him to suffer for too long.” Although he did suffer, he lived for a further six months after I re…”
Record by topic
- Cancer76th of 62218.0
- Palliative & end of life care80th of 56818.0
- Assisted dying116th of 3716.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)21st of 1426.0
- Unpaid carers92nd of 2836.0
- A&E & ambulance response107th of 2583.0
- NHS waiting lists323rd of 5343.0
- Heart disease & stroke174th of 3983.0
- Learning disability & autism654th of 8993.0
- Rare diseases80th of 2023.0
- Adult social care & reform186th of 3763.0
What they’ve said
“…I am of the firm view that if assisted dying is legalised, we will be poorer as a society. We will have crossed a line. We will have accepted that, to adapt the phrase I used earlier, life is not uniquely precious and, importantly, we will have changed the relationship between doctor and patient.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-09-11 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My hon. Friend makes an important point. Let me go back to St Andrew’s hospice in Grimsby. My mother died in hospital on the day that she was due to be moved into that hospice—how I wish that only a day or two earlier she had been able to do that, and to receive the care that I know from subsequent visits the hospice h…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-09-11 · Read on Hansard ↗
“The Chairman of the Committee sends his apologies, Mr Speaker. In addition to the business that the Leader of the House has announced, the Committee has agreed two Select Committee statements: one next Thursday from the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee and one the following Thursday from the Work and Pensio…”
Business of the House · 2026-07-02 · Read on Hansard ↗
“It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Sir Roger. I congratulate the hon. Member for Rossendale and Darwen (Andy MacNae) on securing this important debate. My constituency has 11 railway stations, the largest port in the country and an international airport, so people might think that it would be of major interest t…”
Small Towns: Transport Links · 2026-06-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…ire that is not, in official government terms, part of the east midlands, even though we have the East Midlands ambulance service. We are in no man’s land. We have the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole hospital trust; we are under Humberside police; and the integrated care board—well, that wanders all over the place.”
Productivity and Economic Growth: East Midlands · 2026-03-17 · Read on Hansard ↗
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