Biography

Sultana has engaged with health and social care topics primarily through debate speeches, raising NHS waiting lists, mental health support in education, and concerns about NHS diagnostic requirements in benefit assessments. Her contributions have focused on preventive approaches, including advocating for mandatory relationships and sex education for young people aged 16-18, and questioning the economic and practical justifications for NHS diagnosis requirements in welfare policy. She has also highlighted broader public health concerns, referencing rising food bank use and falling life expectancy as consequences of public service cuts.

Generated from their own Hansard record, below

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I seek your guidance regarding the accuracy of the official report in Hansard. In my speech on Wednesday 2 July 2025 during the debate on the prevention and suppression of terrorism, I said the words, “We are all Palestine Action.” The video and audio recordings clearly confir…

Record by topic

  1. Cancer365th of 6223.0
  2. Mental health654th of 8803.0
  3. Public health & prevention417th of 6883.0
  4. NHS waiting lists323rd of 5343.0

What they’ve said

  • …Instead, they choose to take from those with arthritis, cancer and chronic pain. They just cannot decide how much suffering to inflict. While they squeeze the most vulnerable, they have found billions for war, and billions to raise defence spending and back endless foreign interventions—money for war, but not the poor.

    Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill · 2025-07-09 · Read on Hansard ↗

  • I rise in support of new clause 23, tabled in my name, which seeks to extend mandatory relationships, sex and health education to all young people aged 16 to 18 in further education, sixth form and apprenticeship settings.

    Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-03-18 · Read on Hansard ↗

  • …Child poverty has never been higher and NHS waiting lists have never been longer. Life expectancy is falling and food bank queues are rising. Our public services are cut to the bone and our infrastructure is broken. Our trains are permanently in crisis and our rivers are pumped full of sewage.

    Immigration and Home Affairs · 2024-07-23 · Read on Hansard ↗

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