The Lord Turnberg
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Turnberg's full title is The Lord Turnberg. His name is Leslie Arnold Turnberg, and he has retired from the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
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Lords votes · 2026
No Lords votes recorded for 2026.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2025-10-16
Middle East
My Lords, the release of the hostages and the peace in Gaza were greeted with enormous joy in Israel and Gaza. It was a remarkable event. We know it is the first step, but what surprised, and angers and frustrates, me is that there were men and women mar
My Lords, the suggestion that Palestine Action is somehow helping the cause of the Palestinians is, I am afraid, rather nonsensical. The sort of damaging activity in which it is engaged serves only to further damage the cause of the Palestinians.
I sp
2025-06-18
Care Workers: Foreign Worker Visas
My Lords, my noble friend may have hinted at this already, but one of the ways in which we might encourage retention and attraction to the job of being a care worker is to ensure that they have a nationally registered professional qualification. Is that
2025-06-16
Conflict in the Middle East
My Lords, whatever we think of Israel’s actions against Hamas, there is at least one thing we should agree on: a sense of gratitude for what Israel is doing in Iran. Does my noble friend the Minister accept that Israel has done a great service for us in
2025-05-22
Social Care Reform
My Lords, can my noble friend give us an estimate of the number of vacancies in the care workforce and tell us whether there has been an assessment of the impact on the workforce of the restrictions on overseas recruitment for care workers?
2025-05-13
Scientists: Working in the United Kingdom
My Lords, I am sure my noble friend is aware of the large number of charities that support research that brings overseas senior academics to the UK. I mention the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowships; Weizmann UK, which brings scientists from the Weizmann i
2025-05-07
Antisemitism on University Campuses
My Lords, I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Cryer, for introducing this debate and giving us such a wonderful opening address. Conor Cruise O’Brien said that
“anti-Semitism is a light sleeper”.
Well, it was woken with a bang on the morning after the
2025-05-07
Middle East Update
My Lords, the situation in Gaza is truly horrendous, but Hamas must bear some responsibility for that. Indeed, the Gazan population is rising up against Hamas saying just that. I will briefly address the situation regarding aid. In view of the suggestion
2025-05-01
Dementia and Alzheimer’s Treatments
My Lords, I have of course signed up for the dementia survey and I recommend it. One of the commonest forms of dementia is vascular dementia and we can do quite a lot to prevent it and treat it when it is caused by high blood pressure and diabetes. It re
2025-03-19
NHS England Update
My Lords, I am delighted to support the direction of travel towards patients first. I wonder if there are savings to be made. We can concentrate on the gap in social care, where I suspect much of the NHS is so interdependent. Social care is so badly fund
2025-03-18
Gaza: Ceasefire
I am afraid it is the case that Hamas is busily redigging its tunnels, rearming and preparing to attack Israel again. It makes that very clear and at the same time it has 58 or 59 men, women and children held hostage in terrible conditions, as we have he
2025-03-18
Gaza: Ceasefire
My Lords—
2025-03-17
Primary Healthcare Facilities
My Lords, the biggest problem is the shortage of GPs. We are losing them faster than we are recruiting them. What plans do the Government have to increase the number of general practitioners?
My Lords, last night, I had the privilege of hosting a group of students who described in devastating detail the sort of abuse that they were receiving on campuses, such that many are now afraid to attend classes or even go to the universities. Worst of
My Lords—
2025-01-30
Gaza: Humanitarian Situation
My Lords, perhaps I can help my noble friend the Minister. We must do everything that we can to provide humanitarian aid. COGAT has provided figures on who provides the aid: UNRWA in fact has recently provided only 13% of the aid that goes in. Much more
2025-01-16
Gaza: Healthcare System Support
My Lords, news of a potential ceasefire would indeed be a great relief for both sides, though we will now be going into a sort of truth and reconciliation phase in which blame will be laid on one or other party, and we will see Hamas’s very successful p
2025-01-13
Adult Social Care: Long-term Workforce Plan
My Lords, one of the major problems is that most care workers are employed by privately owned care homes, both large and small. Many of these employees are on zero-hour contracts—it is a mess. How does one ensure that we have a national workforce plan if
2025-01-07
Health and Adult Social Care Reform
My Lords, it is pleasing to welcome the proposals from the Government. It is also very pleasing to hear of the immediate things that can be done for social care, because we should not be waiting for the final report.
There are some more suggestions th
2024-12-02
NHS Plan: Consultation
My Lords, one of the biggest causes of inequality is where you live in the country. If you live in the north-east or north-west, you live two, three or four years less than if you live in the south-west or south-east. Far fewer resources are available fo
2024-11-05
Health-related Benefit Claims
My Lords, the most effective treatment for mental illness is cognitive behavioural therapy. It works very well and has been shown to save money because it is quick and effective. It requires clinical psychologists. Do we have enough of them, and what are
2024-10-24
Red Sea: Houthi Attacks
My Lords, the Houthis have cast the United Kingdom as one of their enemies. People have been marching on the streets of Britain disgracefully supporting that. Will the UK Government proscribe the Houthis now?
2024-10-10
Social Care Strategy
My Lords, I too congratulate my noble friend Lady Keeley for her outstanding speech. May we hear many more from her.
Of late, we have heard quite a lot of brave words about the prospects for a national care service, but I am very sorry to say that I d
2024-09-05
Israel: Arms Sales
My Lords, I am sure that the decision to reduce arms supplies to Israel will offer great encouragement to Hezbollah, Hamas and Iran. In view of the importance of that decision, can we see the full details of the advice that the Government received which
2024-09-03
Middle East Update
My Lords, the distinction between offensive and defensive weapons is very difficult to discern if you are in a war zone and in a country facing thousands of rockets every day from Hezbollah, such that you have had to evacuate 60,000 of your citizens from
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Party history
2020-04-29 → 2026-03-01
Labour
2019-07-09 → 2020-04-28
Non-affiliated
2000-05-04 → 2019-07-08
Labour
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2001-06-26 → 2004-12-01
Science and Technology: Sub-Committee I
2001-06-28 → 2005-05-07
Science and Technology Committee
2004-07-22 → 2005-07-11
Draft Mental Health Bill (Joint Committee)
2004-11-30 → 2005-04-07
Committee on the Assisted Dying for the terminally ill Bill
2007-05-09 → 2007-08-08
Draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill (Joint Committee)
2013-05-16 → 2014-02-25
Mental Capacity Act 2005 Committee
2014-06-12 → 2016-08-31
Works of Art Committee (Lords)
2016-05-25 → 2017-04-05
Long-Term Sustainability of the NHS Committee
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APPGs (2026) · 2 active officership(s) · 2 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Genetic, Rare and Undiagnosed Conditions
Subject Group
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Officer | Genetic Alliance UK | 4 | 2026-04-17 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Medical Research
Subject Group
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Co-Secretary | Association of Medical Research Charities | 6 | 2024-07-04 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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