The Lord Patel of Bradford OBE

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Lord Patel of Bradford's full title is The Lord Patel of Bradford OBE. His name is Kamlesh Kumar Patel, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.

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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25

2026-06-18 Prostate Cancer Screening: AI

My Lords, while artificial intelligence may improve the interpretation of diagnostic tests and support earlier identification of prostate cancer, does the Minister agree that technology alone will not reduce late diagnosis unless it is embedded within a

2026-06-17 Integrated Care Boards: Budgets

My Lords, Sir Chris Whitty produced a report on coastal health that exposed deep and persistent health inequalities in many of our coastal communities. Coastal communities, about 55 towns, make up nearly 20% of the UK population. Five years later, can th

2026-06-17 Integrated Care Boards: Budgets

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2025-09-12 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

My Lords, I was somewhat hesitant to speak today, not because I do not wish to contribute but because I am currently caring for a loved one, which makes my time in this Chamber unpredictable and, at the same time, makes this Bill so much more important a

2024-11-26 Drug-related Deaths in England and Wales

My Lords, I echo what the Minister has just said. The last Labour Administration set up the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse and ring-fenced £800 million to provide treatment when drug users needed it. It reduced drug-related crime, drug us

2024-11-14 Voter Registration and Participation

My Lords, I congratulate the Minister on all his efforts to ensure participation from local communities in Burnley. However, what are the Government doing in rural areas, where people have to travel long distances and transport and polling infrastructure

2024-10-28 Whistleblowers

My Lords, if we go down the road of an office of the whistleblower, which is an excellent idea, could the Minister take back that we need to put something in legislation to protect whistleblowers who are attacked in a vile way on social media, to the poi

2024-10-28 Unregistered Children’s Homes: Fees

My Lords, although there is clearly good practice in many children’s homes, there are also examples of really bad practice. Do the Minister and the Government have any plans to formally and professionally regulate some of the senior staff, at least, in c

2024-10-07 Bus Fares: National Cap

My Lords, can the Minister say if the Government are taking any particular action with respect to coastal and rural communities? The noble Baroness remarked that young people need access to travel to get to work, and yet the infrastructure is completely

2022-07-12 General Practitioners: Shortage

My Lords, looking at wider health workforce issues, I understand that we need another 2,000 radiologists in the next five years and that it is highly unlikely that we will be able to produce them. That is the pessimistic note. On an optimistic note, I he

2021-05-12 Queen’s Speech

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Blake, and the noble Lord, Lord Lebedev, on their maiden speeches and I greatly look forward to working with them both. I am grateful to be speaking on the gracious Speech, and I will focus my time on the

2020-03-19 County Lines Drug Trafficking

Diversion from a life of crime.

2020-03-19 County Lines Drug Trafficking

My Lords, what assessment have the Government made of the links between young people being drawn into county lines and increasing child poverty, the number of children in care and the number of young people being excluded from schools? Also, what are the

2020-03-18 Higher and Further Education: Rural and Coastal Areas

My Lords, while I applaud the Government for doing all they can for further and higher education in coastal and rural areas, we are seeing a mass exodus of young people from those areas because, even if they get the education, there are no jobs. Are ther

2018-07-03 Social Workers Regulations 2018

Clearly, I have avoided speaking on these regulations because I have a clear and obvious conflict of interest, so I do not wish to comment on the debate that has just happened. But, just before the Minister sits down, I take this opportunity to reinforc

2018-02-27 Mental Health

My Lords, around 50,000 people a year are detained in mental health institutions and the rise in the past few years is worrying. It is not perfect to be detained under the Mental Health Act and to be locked away but at least there are some protections in

2018-02-21 Cannabis-based Medication

My Lords, we know that the Government successfully licensed heroin-assisted treatment, or diamorphine-assisted treatment, which is prescribed in a synthetic form to people who do not benefit from or cannot tolerate substances such as methadone. We know t

2017-07-18 Sexual Offences Act 1967

While I echo the sentiments expressed about Commonwealth countries, can I bring the Minister back to the UK? Will she say what the Government are doing with respect to transgender people in our prisons, where there has been a serious spate of suicides be

2017-06-27 Queen’s Speech

My Lords, I am grateful to be speaking in the debate on the gracious Speech and to have the opportunity to raise an issue that I believe has been seriously neglected. Before I do that, I start on a positive note. I was pleased to see the inclusion of a n

2017-02-09 Mental Health: Young People

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Massey for giving us the opportunity to debate this important and pressing issue. She has great expertise in the care and welfare of children and young people, which is evident in all the contributions tha

2017-02-07 Drugs Policy: Departmental Responsibility

My Lords, between 2001 and 2008, investment in drug treatment increased from £250 million pounds a year to £750 million a year, ring-fenced. This resulted in the number of drug users in treatment rising from 80,000 to 230,000, which had a huge impact on

2016-12-15 Criminal Justice System: Diversity

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that Answer. I want to give the House some early figures that we already know. The total number of young people held in secure institutions has halved since 2005, which is good. However, over the past 10 years, the numbe

2016-12-15 Criminal Justice System: Diversity

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the review by David Lammy MP of racial bias and BAME representation in the criminal justice system.

2016-11-16 Mental Health: Children and Adolescents

My Lords, from the mental dataset it is very clear that black and Asian minority ethnic adults are overrepresented in the mental health field, but the data on CAMHS are very inconsistent. They show that young black and Asian people are underrepresented, d

2016-11-08 Prisons: Violence

The Minister is well aware of the many issues that have contributed to the recent rise in the level of violence in the prison system, including huge disinvestment during the past five years, major staff shortages, overcrowding and lack of access to good m

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Register of Interests · 2 entries on file

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Senior Independent Director (non-executive), Cygnet Health Care
registered 2020-03-11 · amended 2025-04-05
Director and Vice President, British Board of Film Classification
registered 2018-05-22 · amended 2025-04-05

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Party history

2018-03-20 → present

Non-affiliated current

2008-02-19 → 2018-03-19

Labour

2006-06-08 → 2008-02-18

Crossbench

Government posts

2008-10-05 → 2009-06-10

Lords in Waiting (HM Household)

Opposition posts

2010-10-08 → 2011-09-05

Shadow Spokesperson (Communities and Local Government)

Committee memberships

2013-05-16 → 2014-02-25

Mental Capacity Act 2005 Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office

patelkk@parliament.uk
020 7219 8997 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s)

Group	Role(s)	Funders	Officers in group	Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Healthy Places Subject Group	Officer	Royal Society for Public Health	4	2027-03-26

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Officer	Role	Party
Dr Beccy Cooper	Chair & Registered Contact	Labour
Debbie Abrahams	Officer	Labour
Lord Bethell	Officer	Conservative
Lord Bethell	Officer	Conservative
Lord Patel of Bradford	Officer	Non-affiliated

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