The Baroness Cass OBE FRCP FRCPCH
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Cass's full title is The Baroness Cass OBE FRCP FRCPCH. Her name is Hilary Cass, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
27 Content(16.7%)
4 Not-Content(2.5%)
131 didn't vote(80.9%)
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publish a "didn't vote" attendance roll like the Commons, so the
figure above conflates absence with abstention.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2026-04-24
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, this debate seems to have characterised everyone in the House as being either supporters or opponents of the Bill. I declare myself somewhere in the middle, and I suspect that there are many others who fall into that category who may have been
2026-04-15
NHS Adult Gender Identity Clinics
My Lords, we know that the 18 to 25 year-olds have many of the same complex problems as the under-18s and, as the Minister has said, they need similar holistic wraparound care, although that is not necessarily yet in place. However, Dr Levy’s review had
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
They would; that is the point of it. Your co-ordinating professional, as I described them, would be with you throughout, as would the specialist assisted dying doctor, from the time you started engaging with them. You might want to check in with one or t
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
May I respond to that? I have not said that they cannot be part of the team. It is likely that the person who is covering a particular area or locality will be known to the team and to the palliative care services. They may or may not be as familiar as o
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 383. I have so far limited my speeches on the Bill to a maximum of two to three minutes but on this one occasion I would like to take more time, because this may be the only opportunity I have to discuss how we can
2026-03-25
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I was going to talk about the consultation, which is fundamentally not fit for purpose, but other noble Lords have covered that well, so I want to make a couple of other points about the way in which the Government are failing to understand the
2026-03-25
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Nobody here is saying that consultations are all a waste of time. What we are saying is that this particular consultation is deeply flawed in its construction.
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Not at all. When I first saw the term “independent advocates” in the Bill, I worried because, in my clinical career as a neurodisability consultant, I have had some very negative experiences of advocates who allegedly were speaking on behalf of people wi
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, on the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, the person or people who will make the best judgment about prognosis will be the treating team: the treating doctor and the multiprofessional team. I have always been somewhat dubious about
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I will speak to a number of amendments in this group. I can be briefer on some because the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, has copied some of my homework and taken it as his own—which I take to be a good thing.
2026-03-18
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I will be very brief. When it comes to assessing risk to children, a plastic bath duck has better risk assessment than AI chatbots. I fully support my noble friend’s amendments.
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I am still not sure what a person is supposed to do if they cannot access a doctor who is in possession of the full information. If the GP, for example, has a conscientious objection, that potentially puts a hurdle in that will stop them being able to mo
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I say to the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, that my mother held doctors in great esteem and reverence until the day that I and my rowdy friends qualified, and then the whole mystique was exploded overnight.
My serious point is that I am still mys
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
To clarify, whether we take the system proposed by my noble friend or the original system with the series of doctors, it is very unlikely under any circumstance that the clinician who is providing primary care for the patient will also be in one of those
2026-02-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I rise very briefly to draw attention to Amendment 928 in the name of my noble friend Lady Hollins, who cannot be in her place today. There are two ways of getting additional expertise: one is through consultation and the other is through havin
2026-02-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Long speeches are unpopular at the best of times, but particularly as I now stand between noble Lords and lunch, so I will try not to make one. It has been a very useful group. We have had a lot of discussion about the appointment process, transparency,
2026-02-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I will be brief, because I believe that my Amendment 122 and the consequential amendments that follow it address a very straightforward and practical issue—saying that could be the kiss of death, but never mind. It is absolutely self-evident th
2026-02-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
2026-02-06
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I would never come at the noble and learned Lord, for whom I have the greatest respect. We de facto have to make changes to the Mental Capacity Act in the application of this, because, where a person does not have capacity, you make a best interests deci
2026-02-06
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I want to make two very brief points. First, I support the point made about proposed new subsection (6)(g), to be inserted by Amendment 115, by the noble Viscount, Lord Colville, on being clear about whether this is a medical treatment. If it is a medica
2026-02-03
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
I will be brief, given the time. I will talk about only two things and try to keep noble Lords awake with them: academic passion and the gut microbiome. That will keep noble Lords on their toes.
On academic passion, when I was president of the paediat
2026-02-03
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I want to speak to this amendment for two reasons. One is that my name is on it. The second is for nostalgic purposes, because the first time I spoke in this House was in a debate that my noble friend Lady Kidron was leading on smartphones in s
2026-01-23
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
May I just correct something? The noble and learned Lord said that I wanted it to be only things that doctors can measure. It is not so much about things that doctors can measure. I was saying that it is about whether it is plausible—a doctor should have
2026-01-23
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, we know that people may have many of the problems that proponents of the Bill have described as reasonable justifications for why someone may want to end their life. They may already be a burden, as they see it, or incontinent, or under financi
2026-01-23
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
The GMC guidance would need to be amended because, at present, there is specific advice on guidance around supporting patients at end of life. It says:
“Where patients raise the issue of assisting them to end their own life, or ask for information tha
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Clinical adviser to the Department for Health and Social Care (formerly to NHS England)
registered 2024-11-05 · amended 2025-04-25
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Party history
2024-08-22 → present
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Government posts
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Opposition posts
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Committee memberships
2025-01-30 → 2026-01-27
Public Services Committee
2026-01-27 → present
Childhood Vaccinations Committee
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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2026-03-27
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Social Media: Research
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2026-03-27
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Social Media: Research
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2026-03-26
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Internet: Children
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2026-02-04
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Social Media: Children
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2026-02-03
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Social Media: Children
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