The Rt Hon. the Lord Bradley
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Bradley's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Bradley. His name is Keith John Charles Bradley, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£4,637
13 days attended across 1 published month
Travel claims
£1,192
Attendance £1,192
Total claimed
£5,829
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
My Lords, I will speak very briefly to this group of amendments, which I fully support. I can be even briefer than I thought I might be because of the eloquence of the speeches already made, and any repetition I make will be to reinforce the message and
My Lords, I rise very briefly to raise a particular issue at this Second Reading debate on a Bill which I am very pleased to support. The issue is the need for legislative change to address out-of-area taxi licensing, which has been raised several times
2025-10-15
Unpaid Carers
My Lords, does my noble friend accept that the current value of the carer’s allowance does not reflect the extraordinary value of unpaid carers’ work? Does she therefore support an urgent review of the allowance in the social care review of the noble Ba
2025-06-24
Social Care
I thank my noble friend for that reply and welcome the initiatives that she has outlined. I want to raise further the extraordinary work of unpaid workers in the care system. The Government have confirmed to me that 61% of unpaid carers in receipt of car
2025-06-24
Social Care
To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to improve social care provision over the next two years.
2025-04-02
Mental Health Bill [HL]
My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendment 47, so eloquently moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Tyler. As the House will know, the establishment of a mental health commissioner was a recommendation of the joint scrutiny committee on the Bill, of which I
2025-03-31
Mental Health Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for that positive response. I believe it is a major step forward in ensuring that the time limit of 28 days for the transfer of prisoners to an appropriate health setting is adhered to. I believe that the new
2025-03-31
Mental Health Bill [HL]
My Lords, I declare my interests as listed in the register.
In Committee, I moved an amendment that would require a specified accountable person to be appointed by the relevant referring body to ensure that the specified 28-day transfer period is met.
2025-03-31
Mental Health Bill [HL]
2025-02-24
Mental Health Bill [HL]
My Lords, I strongly support Amendment 131, to which, as my noble friend Lady Tyler has stated, I have added my name. I can be brief because of the eloquence and comprehensive nature with which she introduced the amendment.
First, to note my registere
2025-01-27
Mental Health Bill [HL]
I am again grateful to the Minister for his response and pleased that he will provide that information, because it is fundamental to effective implementation of this policy. I also look forward, hopefully before Report, to visiting the north-east health
2025-01-27
Mental Health Bill [HL]
My Lords, in moving Amendment 128C I will speak also to Amendment 163C in my name. These amendments relate to Clause 47, “Remand for a person’s own protection etc”, and Clause 53, “Commencement”. I will speak very briefly, because the purpose of these tw
2025-01-27
Mental Health Bill [HL]
2025-01-27
Mental Health Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s response and pleased that progress is being well made to develop alternative facilities to ensure that the use of prisons and police stations as places of safety is banned as soon as possible. The purpose of my
2025-01-27
Mental Health Bill [HL]
My Lords, my Amendments 128A and 163B concern the banning of prisons and police cells as places of safety. By way of background, in my report in 2009, which I have previously referenced, I recommended that discussions should immediately commence to ident
2025-01-27
Mental Health Bill [HL]
2025-01-27
Mental Health Bill [HL]
Before my noble friend completes his summing up, I welcome him to his first Committee session. He kindly offered to meet me to discuss the accountable person for the process of transfer. Can he assure me that that meeting will take place well before Repo
2025-01-27
Mental Health Bill [HL]
Sixteen.
2025-01-27
Mental Health Bill [HL]
My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 96A to 96C and 163A in my name in this group. They deal with the transfer of prisoners from prison to hospital in a specified timeframe of 28 days. I am obviously pleased that this has been included in the Bill under
2025-01-27
Avanti West Coast
I thank my noble friend the Minister for that reply and note my interest as a weekly user of Avanti trains and praise the many excellent staff on these trains and the brilliant services provided by Stockport booking office. However, the performance durin
2025-01-27
Avanti West Coast
To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to review the service provided by Avanti West Coast between Manchester and London.
2025-01-14
Mental Health Bill [HL]
I support and have added my name to Amendment 13, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Tyler, around communication issues. As she rightly pointed out, this could have been linked to Amendment 2, which has already been debated at some length. I will not rep
2025-01-14
Mental Health Bill [HL]
My Lords, I rise to speak in support of Amendment 2, to which I have added my name, but first I declare my interests as listed in the register, especially as honorary vice-president of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and as an honorar
2024-11-25
Mental Health Bill [HL]
My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Hollins, with her expertise in this area. I declare my interests as listed in the register and am pleased to make a short contribution to this debate. It has been some time coming.
F
2024-11-11
Autumn Budget 2024
My Lords, I declare my interests as in the register.
I broadly and warmly welcome this first Labour Budget for 14 years, presented so clearly by my noble friend Lord Livermore, particularly the changes to fiscal rules relating to capital investment, w
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Register of Interests · 3 entries on file
Declarations under the Lords Code of Conduct. Free text — no monetary values, no hours worked. A declaration that an interest exists, not a claim about its size.
Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.
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Non-executive Chair, Bury, Tameside and Glossop NHS LIFT (local improvement finance trust) Company (multi-purpose health centres) (in this capacity, the member is a Director of Bury, Tameside & Glossop Estates Partnership Limited; Bury, Tameside & Glossop FundCo 1 Limited; Bury, Tameside & Glossop FundCo 2 Limited; and Bury, Tameside & Glossop Development Limited)
registered 2014-03-26 · amended 2025-04-05
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Non-executive Chair, Manchester, Salford and Trafford NHS LIFT (local improvement finance trust) Company (multi-purpose health centres) (in this capacity, the member is a Director of MaST Estates Partnership; MaST MidCo 1 Limited; MaST FundCo 1 Limited; MaST MidCo2 Limited; MaST FundCo 2 Limited; and MaST Development Limited)
registered 2010-04-15 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 4: Sponsorship
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Some secretarial support is provided by University of Salford
registered 2020-02-21 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
1987-06-11 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
2001-06-11 → 2002-05-28
Minister of State (Home Office) (Prisons)
1998-07-28 → 2001-01-01
Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip)
1997-05-02 → 1998-07-28
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Social Security)
Opposition posts
2013-11-01 → 2015-09-18
Shadow Spokesperson (Health)
2013-11-01 → 2015-09-18
Shadow Spokesperson (Work and Pensions)
1996-01-01 → 1997-01-01
Shadow Spokesperson (Transport)
1991-01-01 → 1996-01-01
Shadow Spokesperson (Social Security)
Committee memberships
1991-10-31 → 1992-02-10
Agriculture
1999-07-01 → 2001-05-11
Finance and Services Committee
2003-10-20 → 2005-07-12
Health and Social Care Committee
2007-11-13 → 2010-06-30
House Committee (Lords)
2016-05-25 → 2017-04-05
Long-Term Sustainability of the NHS Committee
2019-07-01 → 2023-01-31
Liaison Committee (Lords)
2022-01-19 → 2022-11-21
Adult Social Care Committee
2022-07-19 → 2024-05-30
Draft Mental Health Bill (Joint Committee)
2025-01-30 → present
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2026-01-27 → present
Public Services Committee
Chair
+£18,305/yr
2025-01-30 → present
Public Services Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
bradleykj@parliament.uk
020 7219 4207 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 4207 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 1 historic
Not currently an officer of any active APPG. Was officer of 1 group(s) historically — those rotated off in later snapshots.
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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of 21 tabled
21 answered(100.0%)
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departments
2026-09-14
Department of Health and Social Care
Prisoners: Mental Illness and Neurodiversity
Answered
2026-09-01
Department of Health and Social Care
Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
Answered
2026-07-22
Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services and Social Services
Answered
2026-07-21
Department of Health and Social Care
Psychiatric Hospitals: Hospital Beds
Answered
2026-03-04
Department of Health and Social Care
Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Death
Answered
2026-02-04
Department of Health and Social Care
Occupational Therapy: Prescriptions
Answered
2026-01-21
Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services and Social Services
Answered
2026-01-21
Department of Health and Social Care
Occupational Therapy: Prescriptions
Answered
2026-01-06
Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services and Social Services: Staff
Answered
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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