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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 17 Sep 2025
Independent Commission on Adult Social Care

"My Lords, I declare my interest as set out in the register as chair of Team Domenica. Many people with learning disabilities can live in supported living, but the more vulnerable need intentional communities, which parents across the country tell me that the CQC is trying to close down. Does …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 12 Sep 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"My Lords, I declare my interests as chair of Team Domenica and patron of the Acorns Children’s Hospice.

In 2018, along with two other mothers of young adults with learning disabilities, I took a test case to the High Court to challenge the way in which the Mental Capacity Act …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 02 Jul 2025
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

"My Lords, I support the amendment from my noble friend Lord Parkinson. “Peer” comes from the Latin word par, which means “equal”, and in this House, wherever we sit, we are all equal. We have a shared experience; we are here with a common purpose to scrutinise legislation and serve …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Learning Disabilities Nursing

"I thank the Minister. The Darzi report highlighted that people with learning disabilities have greater health inequalities than the general population and are four times more likely to die from treatable causes. The Mencap campaign Nurses Not Hearses confirmed that services where there are learning disability nurses have fewer such …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Learning Disabilities Nursing

"To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to develop and maintain the specialist branch of learning disabilities nursing...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 24 Mar 2025
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill

"My Lords, I rise to speak in favour of these amendments and to speak very briefly about hospices—which I know many noble Lords have already done. Our hospices support over 300,000 people, mostly in the community, and this tax will cost the sector hundreds of thousands of pounds. Beds will …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 11 Mar 2025
Autism and Learning Disabilities: Hospital Detention

"My Lords, there are over 2,000 people with autism and learning disabilities locked up in these facilities at huge cost. Putting them into the community does not necessarily work because the infrastructure is not there. Will the Minister commit to funding the necessary care and housing for this cohort?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 05 Feb 2025
Care Homes: Safety Ratings

"My Lords, does the Minister agree that a lot of the problems in care homes would be alleviated if becoming a carer in a care home required certified training, supervision and a defined career path, rather than it being a job of last resort for itinerant job seekers, as it …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 04 Feb 2025
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill

"My Lords, Amendment 29 is in my name and would prevent commencement of the Act until a full impact assessment is published for hospices. The NI announcement was a big blow for hospices already struggling with their budgets. There is also understandable frustration in hospices being told that this was …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 04 Feb 2025
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill

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