Biography
Richard Fuller has engaged with health and social care issues primarily through nine debate speeches, with a particular focus on the impact of national insurance contributions on healthcare provision and hospices. His contributions centre on concerns that the secondary class 1 national insurance bill will create financial pressures on hospices, GPs, charities and children's hospices, questioning the Government's ability to shield public services while raising funds through this mechanism. He has also raised questions about the allocation of funding between capital and current expenditure under the legislation.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…t to which fiscal policy has delivered, or is likely to deliver, the fiscal mandate.” The Government have, at a stroke, removed the opportunity for an independent assessment by the OBR ahead of the Government’s spring statement, yet last year the OBR significantly revised many of its previous assessments ahead of the s…”
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care80th of 56818.0
- Heart disease & stroke75th of 3986.0
- Learning disability & autism466th of 8996.0
What they’ve said
“I would like to make it clear that I am speaking in an individual capacity as the Member of Parliament for North Bedfordshire. I congratulate the hon. Member for Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch (Katrina Murray) on her speech and on the extraordinarily human way in which she described her life in a new town.”
New Towns · 2026-01-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…nding for capital expenditure and for current expenditure, and the impact that that difference will have on our hospices, children’s hospices, GPs and others affected by Labour’s jobs tax.”
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill · 2025-03-19 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…When we hear that these taxes are being levied on hospices, charities, GPs and small businesses, we cannot help but believe that Labour thinks that people work only when they work for the Government.”
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill · 2024-12-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Many of our GPs will have to stump up more money, and our hospices and charities will have to find more money. As we approach the Christmas season, will the Minister give some hope to our charities, voluntary groups, GPs and hospices, and say that they, too, will be exempt from Labour’s jobs tax? The Labour party in go…”
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill · 2024-12-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…our hard-pressed hospitality businesses and high street retailers; or the pre-Christmas pleas of our charities, hospices and GPs about the way their contribution to public services has been completely ignored.”
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill · 2024-12-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
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