Biography
Sir Roger Gale has engaged extensively on health and social care through 18 debate speeches, with particular focus on palliative and end-of-life care, maternity services, and NHS workforce issues. He has repeatedly raised concerns about the impact of National Insurance contributions on children's hospices (Shooting Star and Demelza House) and independent care providers, arguing these charities are being effectively taxed twice and unable to maintain staffing levels. He has also championed improvements to the maternity unit at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother hospital in Margate and advocated for enhanced palliative care provision for both children and adults as an alternative to assisted dying.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…There is no need for that to happen. Geriatric though I may be, I understand the difference in definition between a smartphone and a brick phone. It is perfectly possible for any child who has to have a phone to have a brick phone, at very modest cost, so that they can communicate on medically essential matters, or if…”
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care45th of 56830.0
- Cancer230th of 6226.0
- Learning disability & autism466th of 8996.0
- Maternity & neonatal138th of 4386.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing118th of 3023.0
- Elderly care & frailty76th of 2363.0
- Assisted dying193rd of 3713.0
What they’ve said
“…Secretary of State understand that the remarks that he made on Sky television prior to the recess about the maternity unit at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother hospital in Margate were ill informed, anachronistic, deeply offensive and damaging to morale? I was heavily involved, and have been since, in the events fol…”
Maternity Care · 2026-04-14 · Read on Hansard ↗
“May I first join the Father of the House, my right hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh), in thanking the Secretary of State for Defence for the power of his words, and for the manner in which he has spoken for the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and not just for the Government? I do not think th…”
Ukraine · 2026-02-25 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Friend the Member for Sevenoaks (Laura Trott). Schools in my constituency do not have enough money to pay for SEND pupils. It is no good the Secretary of State talking about capital expenditure with more on this and more on that—we need to know where the money is coming from to pay the revenue costs incurred by SEND pu…”
Topical Questions · 2025-12-01 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I too welcome the new Leader of the House to his position. I suspect he will have rather more fun at the Dispatch Box than his successor in the Government Whips Office will. I associate myself with his kind remarks about Colin Lee, whose service as one of the Clerks of the House has been exemplary.”
Business of the House · 2025-09-11 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…we represent would—just perhaps—prefer to see their taxed income generously donated via spending on children’s hospices, rather than spent on an idiotic deal to spend millions of pounds on the Chagos islands?…”
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill · 2025-03-25 · Read on Hansard ↗
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