Biography
Torsten Bell has engaged extensively on health and social care through 24 debate speeches across nine topics, with particular focus on NHS waiting lists, mental health, health inequalities, and cancer. However, the provided recent contributions span primarily pension schemes, taxation, and economic policy rather than health and social care matters, suggesting his health engagement may have occurred in earlier debates not included in these recent extracts. The extracts do not contain substantive discussion of the health topics listed as his areas of engagement.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“The difficult choices that we have had to make are why NHS waiting lists are falling in the hon. Gentleman’s constituency and why his own police chief constable said that “increased officer numbers will enable us to further tackle issues such as antisocial behaviour, theft and drug-related crimes.” The hon.”
Record by topic
- NHS waiting lists25th of 53427.0
- Learning disability & autism307th of 89912.0
- Palliative & end of life care158th of 5689.0
- Mental health481st of 8806.0
- Cancer365th of 6223.0
- Maternity & neonatal238th of 4383.0
- Public health & prevention417th of 6883.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)47th of 1423.0
- Health inequalities135th of 2883.0
What they’ve said
“…Here is one fact that it is hard to get over: over one in five of those aged over 75 were on English NHS waiting lists, which soared to over 7 million. One in five people over 75 were left on an NHS waiting list. That is what letting down pensioners looks like, and our priority is to turn that around.”
State Pensioners: Personal Allowance · 2026-06-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…It does not, for example, tell us how growth is distributed or about wealth inequalities, physical and mental health, and environmental sustainability. As the hon. Member set out, those limits have been long recognised, but we need to keep pushing against them.”
Alternative Measures to GDP · 2026-04-21 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…see, but it is those tax rises and the reforms that the Secretary of State is putting in place that are seeing waiting lists now consistently falling across the country. I promised a discursion on the remarks of the right hon. Member for Tonbridge (Tom Tugendhat).”
Pension Schemes Bill · 2026-04-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…ich was raised in the other place, regarding worries about those who are taking career breaks, particularly for maternity leave, and have a dormant pot for a period of time.”
Pension Schemes Bill · 2026-04-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Members to the work of the national lung cancer screening programme, which exists precisely for that purpose. We all believe that cross-party support on this measure is important—it continues as it has since 2010.”
Draft Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 Draft Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 · 2026-02-11 · Read on Hansard ↗
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