Biography
Mr Rand has engaged extensively on maternity and neonatal care through 33 debate speeches, with particular focus on regulation of the unqualified infant sleep industry following a constituent's baby death, and on broader maternity service failures. He has also raised mental health support for terminally ill patients, ADHD diagnosis delays, learning disability employment support, and A&E pressure, consistently drawing on constituent cases to illustrate systemic issues across health and social care.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Member for New Forest West said, parents need to have somewhere to turn. From perinatal to neonatal care, that help must be universal, it must be statutory and it must be something that the Government are held to account for delivering. This Bill sets us on the path to doing so.”
Record by topic
- Cancer38th of 62230.0
- Learning disability & autism159th of 89924.0
- Maternity & neonatal29th of 43821.0
- Mental health188th of 88018.0
- NHS waiting lists101st of 53412.0
- Palliative & end of life care158th of 5689.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing61st of 3026.0
- Heart disease & stroke75th of 3986.0
- Rare diseases80th of 2023.0
- A&E & ambulance response107th of 2583.0
What they’ve said
“…The projected reduction in the huge costs associated with poor mental health, reliance on the care system and future criminal behaviour shows how our economy would benefit from increasing the support provided to parents and the adults around them and by creating the conditions that allow parents and carers to stay in w…”
Infants, Parents and Carers Bill · 2026-09-04 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…e-threatening illness, because of course as a DES sufferer, she is 40 times more likely to suffer from cervical cancer. Does my hon. Friend agree with Susannah and me that the Government should very carefully consider the merits of a full public inquiry into this scandal?…”
Diethylstilbestrol: Intergenerational Impact · 2026-06-29 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Sometimes, these people call themselves maternity nurses, practitioners or consultants. Sometimes they call themselves sleep trainers or specialists. Sometimes they provide care in the home. Sometimes they share their advice to vast and growing audiences on social media.”
Maternity Nurses, Nannies and the Infant Sleep Industry · 2026-06-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Trafford died after being placed in an unsafe sleeping position on the advice of a maternity nurse who had no medical qualifications at all. There was no legal accountability for this death because no laws had been broken, but a family had been broken.”
Maternity Nurses, Nannies and the Infant Sleep Industry · 2026-06-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We have a new skin cancer clinic, but I want us to go further and establish a permanent diagnostic centre for my community to relieve pressure on Wythenshawe A&E.”
Business of the House · 2026-06-04 · Read on Hansard ↗
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