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Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Amos (Lab - Life peer) , more specifically black women’s health, which has a sustained and long-term impact on their well-being - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) In relation to maternal care, we have established the maternal disparities task force, which is improving - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Mental Health Patients: Discharge - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Manzoor (Con - Life peer) My Lords, my noble friend will be aware of the link between mental health and homelessness. - Speech Link
2: Lord Patel (XB - Life peer) My Lords, suicide is the second highest cause of maternal deaths in England. - Speech Link
3: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) We had the rapid review of data in mental health settings. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Uddin (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I have spoken before about the disproportionate numbers of black and Asian men in the system using mental - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) Labour’s race equality Act would include a target to close the appalling maternal mortality gap for black - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) In fact, the Health Secretary made an announcement on maternal services this week; I think it would be - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) Friend the Health Secretary will be making a statement shortly. - Speech Link
4: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) February marks Emotional Health, Boost Your Self Esteem and Children’s Mental Health Month. - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) The Department of Health and Social Care will respond to the report in due course, and the Health Secretary - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Day - Fri 02 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale (Lab - Life peer) Of course, there are decent and honest people—Palestinians as well as foreigners—working in Gaza health - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Norwood Green (Lab - Life peer) My maternal grandmother was born in Odesa. - Speech Link
3: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) Her mother—my maternal grandmother—and her aunt and family, were alive at the end of the war in 1944, - Speech Link
4: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) centre is testimony to the work of the Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association, and the late Lilian Black—may - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Shared Parental Leave and Pay (Bereavement) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 26 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Chris Elmore (Lab - Ogmore) Even more troubling is that black, Asian and minority ethnic women, and those in economically deprived - Speech Link
2: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) getting the right support at the right time, with potentially serious consequences in all areas, from health - Speech Link
3: Darren Henry (Con - Broxtowe) presence, such as if the remaining parent is unable to take leave from work, can lead to long-term mental health - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Maternity Services - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Bolton (Lab - Life peer) A key finding is that the maternal death rate for black women is three times higher than that for white - Speech Link
2: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) An investigation led by Oxford Population Health found that the maternal death rate was three times higher - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) When we are talking about maternal health, we have to talk about people’s working hours and commuting - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) They need to collect that data.The Commons report on black maternal health was vital to this debate. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) We are also committed to setting an explicit target to end the maternal mortality gap, which sees black - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Andrew Stephenson (Con - Pendle) In addition to the new visa route, we are exempting health and care staff from the immigration health - Speech Link
2: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) We have also launched our men’s health taskforce to tackle the biggest health issues facing men. - Speech Link
3: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) that the trial will start in the spring, with recruitment in the autumn, including the recruitment of black - Speech Link
4: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) Members for Hyndburn (Sara Britcliffe) and for Stafford (Theo Clarke), by March we will make dedicated maternal - Speech Link
5: Sajid Javid (Con - Bromsgrove) reliability of medical devices, but we know that that is what happened during the pandemic for many black - Speech Link


Written Statements
Women’s Health Strategy - Wed 17 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) By March, new services to avoid tears during childbirth and to improve maternal mental health will be - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health: RSV Immunisation - Wed 17 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) Whether we go for the maternal vaccination or the infant one will depend on the communication plan, but - Speech Link
2: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) Again, it depends on whether we go for the maternal option or do it via a different process with infants - Speech Link
3: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) is the great disparity between white Britons receiving the flu vaccine, where coverage is 83.6%, and black - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Is data being collected on the effectiveness and overall health impacts on people who are having the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Smokefree Future - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) People are buying it illicitly, either as stolen products or black market products that have been brought - Speech Link
2: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) is people with mental health conditions. - Speech Link
3: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) There has been good progress in recent decades to bring down maternal smoking, but there is more to do - Speech Link
4: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) for pregnant women and their partners, with programmes such as the NHS long-term plan commitments on maternal - Speech Link