Baroness Buscombe
The Baroness Buscombe
Conservative
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 22 July 1998
Parliamentary Activity
Recent Debate Contributions
Social Care Reform
21/05/2025 • Lords
My Lords—
Mental Health Bill [HL]
30/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, the Minister will know that I pledged at the very beginning, before the Bill came to this House, that I would do all I could to help its pas...
Disruption at Heathrow
25/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I shall try once more. I am rather tired because I, too, was very badly directly affected by this incident.
The incident itself was deepl...
My Lords—
Mental Health Bill [HL]
27/01/2025 • Lords
At the risk of giving the Minister a rather hard time on his first outing in Committee, on the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, about peopl...
My Lords, perhaps I may quote from our report on the draft Mental Health Bill on this point, while agreeing 100% with both previous speakers....
Mental Health Bill [HL]
20/01/2025 • Lords
My Lords, this is an area where I feel I have the possibility of a solution or part of a solution, while supporting very much what my noble friend has...
My Lords, I want to add to what the noble Baroness just said. Amendment 139 goes to the heart of the Bill in terms of changing the culture and the way...
Mental Health Bill [HL]
25/11/2024 • Lords
My Lords, it gives me enormous pleasure to speak in this debate. For me, this legislation is above politics: it is a real opportunity for constructive...
House of Lords Reform
12/11/2024 • Lords
My Lords, I recall a few years ago being asked by a senior member of the Royal Family for my view on the continued presence in our House of hereditary...
Defence Spending
31/10/2024 • Lords
I am sorry to interrupt, but is that review independent of the MoD?
My Lords, I am pleased to have this brief opportunity to speak of the road map to spending 2.5% of our GDP on defence, particularly given that I was u...
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