United Kingdom parliament

Hilary Cass

Member of the House of Lords · Crossbench

Transcripts of what Hilary Cass said in Parliament, sitting by sitting. Only speeches whose speaker is confirmed are shown.

6 sittings with a confirmed speech

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Latest speeches

  1. Childhood Vaccinations Committee · House of Lords · 6 July 2026

    • Community pharmacy pilots and hospital access to records

      “Good to see you and sorry I can't be there in person. My question's about community pharmacy, and some pharmacy groups have called for a national framework enabling community pharmacy to be commissioned to deliver vaccines where uptake's low. But…”
      Watch from 1:20:37

    • Community pharmacy pilots and hospital access to records

      “Brilliant, thank you. That's very helpful. Thank you. And just my second question, which you've partially covered already, but some hospital doctors have shared their frustration that they can't check children's vaccination records when they might want to do a…”
      Watch from 1:23:19

  2. Childhood Vaccinations Committee · House of Lords · 29 June 2026

    • Training modalities, hesitancy among staff and making confidence training mandatory

      “Just this is just a comment before I come to my question. When I was working across the road at Tommy's, the chief nurse stood in the entrance lobby of the hospital and she was a small lady, but boy,…”
      Watch from 28:43

    • Building a professional immunisation community within public health

      “The intentions, I think, could be very helpful. Thank you very much. I mean, just follow can I just follow on from that? I mean, this may be a reflection of my age, but the names I know in the…”
      Watch from 1:25:32

    • Meeting minimum training standards and designing a new training framework

      “I'm not sure if you were in the room when I said that some very senior people in the field who've been providing a teaching program for so long that even someone as ancient as me went on it, have…”
      Watch from 1:45:48
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  3. House of Lords · House of Lords · 25 June 2026

    • Oral question 4: Age of consent for puberty blockers trial

      “My Lords, on the issue of age at enrollment, I've obviously spoken to my clinical colleagues about this. They expect enrollment at 11 or 12 to be vanishingly rare. But I ask noble Lords to consider the case of a…”
      Watch from 42:51

    • Healthcare debate: Underfunded primary care and prevention

      “My Lords, I declare an interest as a veteran of many health service reorganisations through which I've consistently advocated for children and young people not to be forgotten, so it won't be a surprise that I'm doing the same today.…”
      Watch from 1:12:10

  4. House of Lords · House of Lords · 24 June 2026

    • Business of the House and Commons statement: PATHWAYS puberty blockers trial

      “I am seriously worried about the children not in the trial. Approximately 240 children who have come to the new clinics have admitted to being on an extraordinary cocktail of medications, including testosterone from age 11 with facial hair at…”
      Watch from 1:31:53

  5. Childhood Vaccinations Committee · House of Lords · 22 June 2026

    • International approaches to equity and hard‑to‑reach groups

      “Can't hear. Ah, I think I've been unmuted. Very good to meet you online. Apologies, I have an eavesdropper over my left shoulder which is not paying very close attention. So, you've spoken already about the issue of providing equitable…”
      Watch from 17:32

  6. Childhood Vaccinations Committee · House of Lords · 15 June 2026

    • Q : Baroness Cass: witnesses’ top recommendations

      “Yes. So, we have to make recommendations to government on this complex array of issues. And so you've given us lots of thoughts on the way things should move forward. But I'm going to ask each of you to concentrate…”
      Watch from 1:04:03

    • Professor Pollard: priorities on uptake and vaccine literacy

      “You're right, Andrew, I remember the bad old days of wards with particularly ex-prems with whooping cough and being up all night with kids with meningitis and yeah. Anyway, so you heard I was pretty mean with the last witnesses…”
      Watch from 2:00:57

    • Q : Baroness Neuberger: role of schools in vaccination norms

      “You could teach so much on the back of teaching about vaccines. It's not like a soft option. There's a lot of science. It's a PhD in itself, scaled down to a much younger person.”
      Watch from 2:08:32

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