Baroness Hollins
The Baroness Hollins
Crossbench
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 15 November 2010
Parliamentary Activity
Recent Debate Contributions
Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill
18/05/2025 • Lords
I was talking about unintended consequences and the risks of a lack of clarity. I was going to end simply by urging the Minister to reflect deeply on ...
My Lords, I will speak briefly about definition, and in particular the lack of definition of “personal characteristics”. There is a possibility that t...
Mental Health Bill [HL]
01/04/2025 • Lords
My Lords, although funding for independent reviews for people detained in long-term segregation will continue until 2026, it is not really enough. Ind...
Mental Health Bill [HL]
30/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness’s points about trauma.
I will speak to Amendment 53. I credit my parliamentary scholar with writing it. H...
My Lords, I am grateful for the promises made by the Minister, but they are not wholly reassuring and I had intended to test the opinion of the House....
3 more contributionsView all →
Autism and Learning Disabilities: Hospital Detention
11/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, for 25 years, this woman’s detention was in long-term segregation. My review of this practice, which was commissioned by the previous Govern...
Mental Health Bill [HL]
24/02/2025 • Lords
There seemed to be an assumption that long-term segregation would continue and that perhaps ICETRs are not effective, but one thing that emerges from ...
My Lords, I declare my interest and my experience as a retired psychiatrist, working for the majority of my career with people with learning disabilit...
3 more contributionsView all →
Health and Adult Social Care Reform
07/01/2025 • Lords
My Lords, why is there no mention of mental health in the Statement? What happened to parity, I wonder? For example, 12,400 hospital patients a day ar...
Mental Health Bill [HL]
25/11/2024 • Lords
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness. I remind the House that I worked clinically as a psychiatrist for about 35 years and had been...
Palliative and End-of-life Care: Funding
03/09/2024 • Lords
My Lords, the Minister has rightly pointed to the growing need for excellent palliative care close to home, and I am glad of that, but I wonder whethe...
King’s Speech
18/07/2024 • Lords
My Lords, it is a pleasure to respond to the gracious Speech and to have had a chance to hear inspired contributions from so many noble Lords. In part...
Written Questions Asked
Written Questions Answered
No questions found.
Early Day Motions (Primary Sponsor)
No EDMs found.
Early Day Motions (Co-sponsored)
No EDMs found.