The Baroness Murphy
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Murphy's full title is The Baroness Murphy. Her name is Elaine Murphy, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
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Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
10 Content(6.2%)
10 Not-Content(6.2%)
142 didn't vote(87.7%)
2026-03-12
Content
26–134
Not-Content
2026-01-05
Not-Content
132–124
Content
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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
2026-06-22
NHS: Dementia Treatment Trials
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to assess and prioritise investment in trials of new dementia treatments in the NHS.
2026-06-22
NHS: Dementia Treatment Trials
I am very grateful to the Minister for that update. Dementia is now the most prevalent mental disorder in the country and the leading cause of death in women. I think she will agree with me that, at the moment, only 30% of dementia cases ever get diagnos
2026-06-15
Mental Health Conditions: Diagnoses
My Lords, I am a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, but what I am going to say this evening will, I fear, be unpopular in some quarters, including with my own royal college, which broadly says that these rising figures merely expose unmet need
Does the Minister agree that while the current generation of drugs is not very efficacious—and, sadly, more research recently has demonstrated that it is not terribly good—the most important reason for early diagnosis, as we have said, is to get the serv
2026-06-01
Social Housing Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am no expert in housing, as many people in the Chamber are; if some of my questions and comments appear naive, it is because I am reflecting what many of the general public think and understand about social housing.
It is 30 years since I
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I do not know what the noble Baroness’s discussions with her patients are like, but I remember mine very well. A lot of discussion that goes on between a doctor and a patient does not get formally recorded but is part of the everyday conversation of a co
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I just want to comment on some of these earlier amendments, particularly from the noble Lord, Lord Shinkwin. I think the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay—I cannot remember whether it was last week or the week before that—reminded us that people who are termin
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords—
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, could I make it clear to noble Lords that, in the best legislatures that have implemented similar legislation to this one—and I am thinking of Oregon, the State of Washington and so on—assisted dying is a small part, a very tiny part, of a good
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
We have discussed this issue at some length before, but I wonder if the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, has considered that the Bill does not say anything about a definite diagnosis. The phrase is “can reasonably be expected”. It does not mean that anybody has
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Is the noble Baroness, Lady Lawlor, aware that, of all the countries in Europe, it is the Netherlands where doctors are most trusted? We should consider what their legislation is and how close, often, the relationship is between the doctor and the patien
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, “morally abhorrent” is quite distressing. I am a doctor; I have been a doctor for 50 years and have worked with dying people quite regularly in hospital, particularly in general hospitals. I find the notion that doctors all find this abhorrent
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords—
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords—
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
The fact of the matter is that many of the things we are discussing would, in normal medical and social legislation, be contained in codes of practice. They will certainly need to be worked up in great detail for some of these issues to be covered, but i
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I oppose the view of the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, that we should have a completely separate service. That would target and isolate people who are dying. They will wish to be supported by the people who they have known through the course of
2026-02-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, as a clinician for 50 years in the NHS, I find the noble Lord’s suggestions quite offensive. We have been asked to be kind today and I would ask him to be a little kinder to NHS clinicians in their decisions to try to help people at the end of
2026-02-27
Arrangement of Business
It is worth noting, for what it is worth to the Chamber, that the noble Lord, Lord Harper, is just beginning his first filibuster now.
2026-01-08
Schools and Universities: Language Learning
My Lords, I, too, give thanks to the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, for raising this debate, and for her powerful introduction and sensible proposals.
We have all welcomed the reinstatement of the Erasmus+ programme, but, as universities will tell you
2025-11-14
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I wish to comment on the previous statement made by the noble Lord, Lord Gove. I am a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and I must have used the Mental Capacity Act dozens of times throughout my career. Capacity assessment, and how
2025-11-14
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I would like to briefly intervene, because every day of the week there are hundreds of decisions made in the NHS and independent care about life and death. I will give a very brief example. My brother has had renal failure for 40 years. He has been brill
2025-11-14
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
There is never enough training—let us assess that.
2025-11-14
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
It does.
2025-11-14
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
It is very important that we understand where these reports come from. This one is issued by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, but it has not been subjected to scrutiny by the members. Although they have many good points, and we can look carefully at
2025-11-13
Goodmayes Hospital Mental Health Facility
My Lords, would the Minister agree with me that, while it is 10 years since Alice Figueiredo died, we know that resources in mental health services in-patient units—in terms of human resources particularly, but the number of beds they have access to as w
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Party history
2004-06-17 → present
Crossbench
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2004-07-22 → 2005-07-11
Draft Mental Health Bill (Joint Committee)
2004-12-01 → 2005-05-07
Science and Technology: Sub-Committee I
2010-07-01 → 2011-01-13
Leader's Group on Members Leaving the House (L)
Contact
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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