Biography
Melanie Ward has engaged substantially with health and social care topics through 23 debate speeches, with a particular focus on NHS waiting lists and mental health provision in Scotland, which she has raised multiple times alongside concerns about cancer treatment targets and autism assessment delays. She has also spoken on several significant legislative matters including the assisted dying bill and the Mental Health Bill, and raised broader public health issues including social media regulation and disability support. Her contributions reflect both scrutiny of Scottish Government health performance and engagement with UK-wide health policy debates.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Ministers, who asked for technical support from our Government, particularly on special educational needs and disabilities. Some 27% of Syrian children are disabled, following the war. They also asked for us to reopen the embassy in Syria, for business support and a lot of other things.”
Record by topic
- Mental health290th of 88012.0
- Learning disability & autism307th of 89912.0
- Cancer126th of 62212.0
- NHS waiting lists140th of 5349.0
- Public health & prevention252nd of 6886.0
- Maternity & neonatal138th of 4386.0
- Children's health28th of 1576.0
- Assisted dying116th of 3716.0
- Palliative & end of life care213th of 5686.0
What they’ve said
“…e that future generations will look on our Parliament as the Parliament that finally took action to prevent the public health risk and the real-life harm that is addictive social media and extremist content in the hands of children, as well as in the hands of so many vulnerable young people. We must act now.”
Online Harms · 2026-03-19 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Scotland, such as the cuts to police numbers in Fife and excessively long waiting lists in the NHS that are not falling, as they are under a Labour Government in England. The hon. Gentleman talks about heating oil.”
Fuel Duty · 2026-03-18 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…advance women’s equality, from halving violence against women and girls to transforming women’s experiences of maternity care—a subject I discussed with the right hon. Baroness Amos just this week.”
International Women’s Day · 2026-03-12 · Read on Hansard ↗
“It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Brigg and Immingham (Martin Vickers) who, as so often on topics like this, speaks with great authority. I rise once again this year to remember the Holocaust, one of the darkest chapters in human history.”
Holocaust Memorial Day · 2026-01-29 · Read on Hansard ↗
“With reference to the previous intervention, I wonder what my hon. Friend, who knows so much about the NHS in Scotland, makes of the fact that the Scottish Government’s target for cancer treatment —that 95% of patients are treated within 62 days of an urgent referral—has not been met since 2012.”
Devolution in Scotland · 2025-10-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
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