Biography
Collins has engaged extensively on health and social care through 40 debate speeches, covering twelve topics including learning disability and autism, mental health, NHS waiting lists, and cancer care. Notable contributions include raising concerns about GP access difficulties in her constituency, highlighting the needs of young adult carers, and calling for a dedicated debate on postcode lottery disparities in cancer care provision. She has also connected health infrastructure challenges to planning policy, arguing that new housing developments should not proceed without adequate NHS capacity to serve new residents.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Chamila, who is a teaching assistant in Northchurch who helps children with special educational needs and volunteers at the local church. They have built a life in my constituency for four years.”
Record by topic
- Mental health85th of 88042.0
- Learning disability & autism98th of 89933.0
- Public health & prevention56th of 68821.0
- Cancer98th of 62215.0
- NHS waiting lists101st of 53412.0
- Unpaid carers48th of 28312.0
- Dentistry access41st of 1949.0
- Dementia30th of 2519.0
- Palliative & end of life care158th of 5689.0
- GP access49th of 2416.0
- Children's health56th of 1573.0
- Diabetes68th of 1903.0
- Heart disease & stroke174th of 3983.0
- Rare diseases80th of 2023.0
- Adult social care & reform186th of 3763.0
- Long Covid16th of 553.0
- A&E & ambulance response107th of 2583.0
What they’ve said
“…Her child, who has specific SEND needs, has already been through failed placements. She says: “It is only in a specialist school that they feel safe, settled and able to learn.” The younger generation look at the broken system, and it is no wonder they question whether they should pay into it.”
Defence Readiness · 2026-05-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…As the hon. Member for Worthing West said, gambling advertising is a public health issue. Of course, there is a great industry, but we are talking about the public health element of advertising, including advertising to vulnerable people and children.”
Gambling Advertising · 2026-04-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Members for Strangford (Jim Shannon) and for Harlow. In that moment just after formal education, when young carers become young adult carers, they move into an informal space where care for them is even more desperately needed. As many hon.”
Young Adult Carers: Education and Training · 2026-04-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“Catherine from Redbourn has shared that she has to wait weeks for a GP appointment, yet her village faces an increase in residents of up to 70%, which means thousands of new patients. Some of that is through speculative developments.”
Topical Questions · 2026-02-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…That is before we even talk about the impossibility of finding an NHS dentist, the pressures on GPs and the desperate need for additional school places, particularly for children with special educational needs. These old towns and villages are not built for growth of such scale.”
Local Transport: Planning Developments · 2026-02-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
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