Biography
The Lord Bishop of Manchester has engaged extensively on social welfare and vulnerable populations through eight debate speeches, with particular focus on housing insecurity, mental health support, and financial vulnerability among young people and care leavers. While the topics listed include health and social care areas such as mental health, NHS waiting lists, and health inequalities, the Hansard extracts provided demonstrate engagement primarily on housing, homelessness, benefits policy, and prisoner rehabilitation rather than direct healthcare issues. His contributions emphasise systemic approaches to vulnerability and local community solutions, drawing on his roles with housing and charitable organisations.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…I pray that this time, we will end up with action, not just another report. I remember the Dilnot report, which I thought was a good thing at the time. But if we have to consider again in this House, as I suspect we will, matters such as assisted dying, at least we can do so in the context of a proper offer of palliati…”
Record by topic
- Mental health369th of 88010.0
- Assisted dying277th of 3712.0
- Health inequalities245th of 2882.0
- Palliative & end of life care452nd of 5682.0
- Adult social care & reform312th of 3762.0
- NHS waiting lists467th of 5342.0
What they’ve said
“…Informed by their clients’ histories of trauma, unstable housing, exclusion from education and poor mental health, the Clink has now successfully trained over 5,000 people. It is a prime example of the joined-up working I am talking about.”
Early Release Prisoners: Preventing Homelessness and Rough Sleeping · 2026-07-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, it is a great honour to follow the noble Baroness., Lady Tyler. As I listened to her speech, I was crossing off most of the things that I was going to say, because she said them much more eloquently than I could have, and I am thankful for that.”
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL] · 2026-06-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…g get only the shared accommodation rate of benefits, yet they are often disproportionately the people who have mental health concerns or other issues. Does the Minister agree that this needs looking into to ensure that the most vulnerable young people are not the ones who are pushed to the bottom of the housing situat…”
Affordable Housing: Young People · 2026-06-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Protecting and increasing our housing stock is an essential step to reduce the waiting list. That is why I welcome the Bill’s commitment to exempt newly built homes from the right-to-buy scheme and to streamline processes that will incentivise local councils to build more homes.”
Social Housing Bill [HL] · 2026-06-01 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, in moving this amendment, I am grateful for the help of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, which has worked with local enforcement teams in my diocese to help us get to this amendment.”
Renters’ Rights Bill · 2025-05-14 · Read on Hansard ↗
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