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Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 12 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Keeley (Lab - Life peer) Hospices exist to offer comfort, dignity and holistic support, not to facilitate premature death. - Speech Link
2: Lord McColl of Dulwich (Con - Life peer) I have worked in hospices for all these years, and that is not the case. - Speech Link
3: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) Deaths may take place in hospices. Hospices have said that the Bill is not safe. - Speech Link
4: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) Let us train, fund and support hospices and home care so that no one is forced to consider death out - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Food, Diet and Obesity Committee Report - Fri 28 Mar 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The ONS study on obesity and mortality found emphatic evidence that the risk of death from coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Lord McColl of Dulwich (Con - Life peer) I was responsible for setting up hospices for people dying of AIDS in London and in Uganda. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
NHS: Independent Investigation - Thu 12 Sep 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) patients—clearly, the NHS would not be in the mess it finds itself in today.Thirdly, there was coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) and Haven House children’s hospice for the care they provide to constituents, like so many other hospices - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hospice Funding - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Bambos Charalambous (Lab - Enfield, Southgate) Long-term funding is absolutely essential if hospices, particularly children’s hospices, are to be able - Speech Link
2: Chris Green (Con - Bolton West) It will create problems for not only the hospices, but the local NHS if hospices cannot continue in the - Speech Link
3: Chris Loder (Con - West Dorset) The Government announced additional funding for hospices during the coronavirus pandemic, and in a Westminster - Speech Link
4: James Sunderland (Con - Bracknell) Hospices take pressure off the NHS. - Speech Link
5: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) Integrated care boards do, indeed, commission hospices to provide care, but hospices also provide care - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Future of the NHS - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) end-of-life treatment will increasingly become a necessity for all of us.Hospices such as Havens Hospices - Speech Link
2: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) The development of coronavirus vaccines shows us how industrial policy can work, with the state playing - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Assisted Dying - Mon 04 Jul 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (LAB - Gower) As Liz said, it is outrageous that hospices are mainly charity funded. - Speech Link
2: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) The proportion of people and the number of people in Dutch hospices who ask to leave so that their life - Speech Link
3: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) Perhaps that is something we can do that we would all be supportive of.Our hospices do an amazing job - Speech Link
4: James Cartlidge (CON - South Suffolk) Friend of course oversaw, more than £400 million has been made available to hospices since the start - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Health and Care Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Wed 30 Mar 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (CON - Sleaford and North Hykeham) The reason that the rules were brought in the first place was to protect women from coronavirus and to - Speech Link
2: Peter Gibson (CON - Darlington) Friend the Member for North Warwickshire (Craig Tracey).Funding certainty for hospices is essential. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Statement - Wed 23 Mar 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) It is the biggest cut to business rates outside of coronavirus since the business rate system was created - Speech Link
2: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) The Children’s Hospices Across Scotland charity is receiving alarming calls from people whose energy - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) rate will rise from 19% to 25% to ensure that we do spread the burden fairly in recovering from coronavirus - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Care Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 2 - Wed 16 Mar 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Sentamu (CB - Life peer) My Lords, I was patron of Martin House in York, which is one of the amazing hospices that care for children - Speech Link
2: Lord Russell of Liverpool (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Like the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, I am an officer of the all-party parliamentary group on coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) That led to me, as very new Peer, moving the amendment to the coronavirus regulations that would have - Speech Link
4: Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown (DUP - Life peer) I commend the Government for the actions they took to turn the coronavirus crisis around to the situation - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Care Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 1 - Wed 26 Jan 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) As I read it, this amendment would exclude hospices, for example—which would be a ridiculous thing to - Speech Link
2: Lord Kamall (CON - Life peer) However, I would draw the noble Lord’s attention specifically to the recent experience of coronavirus - Speech Link