Biography
Sir John Whittingdale has engaged on health and social care topics primarily through debate speeches, raising concerns across cancer treatment performance, learning disability and autism provision, and social care reform. His contributions have focused particularly on service delivery challenges in his Essex constituency, including cancer treatment waiting times at Mid and South Essex NHS Trust and recruitment difficulties for educational psychologists to meet education, health and care assessment demands. He has also sought reassurance on the Government's commitment to implementing the Dilnot social care reforms, including a cap on care costs.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“The league table of NHS trusts shows that the percentage of patients starting treatment for cancer within 62 days in Mid and South Essex is 21%, which puts it bottom of 121 trusts.”
Record by topic
- Cancer230th of 6226.0
- Learning disability & autism466th of 8996.0
- Adult social care & reform99th of 3766.0
- Maternity & neonatal238th of 4383.0
What they’ve said
“T10. Essex has seen a huge increase in the number of requests for education, health and care needs assessments, and is failing to meet the target, in part due to the difficulty of recruiting educational psychologists.”
Topical Questions · 2025-07-21 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…College for graduation ceremonies, the Royal Navy for the Mountbatten Festival of Music, and the Teenage Cancer Trust for its fundraising concerts. It also has an engagement programme that reaches out to some 180,000 people of all ages in local communities and schools, giving them opportunities to learn about performin…”
Royal Albert Hall Bill [Lords] · 2025-07-14 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…ment is providing some extra funds to meet the additional costs of NICs in schools, those with a high number of SEND pupils such as All Saints’ primary in Maldon will still receive less than 50% of the increase.”
Topical Questions · 2025-06-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
“Well, the ministerial foreword to the consultation paper suggests there was uncertainty, and that has consistently been one of the reasons why the Government have said they need to carry out all these consultations.”
Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords] · 2025-05-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“The Home Secretary may be aware of a visit I made to Iran International just a few weeks ago, during which it expressed its appreciation for the fantastic support it has received from the Metropolitan police and security services.”
National Security Act 2023: Charges · 2025-05-19 · Read on Hansard ↗
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