Robert Winston

Latest speeches

1. House of Lords · House of Lords · 17 September 2026

   • Debate part 2: Judicial perspectives, probation and systemic reform

     “My Lords, I too have very little experience in this area, but I thought I did have something that I thought was worth saying from a professional point of view. My experience of prisons is not as a prisoner, but…”

     Watch from 6:09:20

2. Science and Technology Committee · House of Lords · 8 September 2026

   • Selecting programme directors: skills mix and risk appetite

     “Thank you, Lord Chairman. Thank you very much indeed for coming this morning. What you're saying to us is really interesting. I wonder if you could give us some view of the selection of the selection of program directors. Obviously…”

     Watch from 23:35

   • Selecting programme directors: skills mix and risk appetite

     “If I could Lord Winston please just come um come back with my last question. Um your previous CEO um sug suggested to us that really the ideal projects were the one where there was violent disagreement where half the…”

     Watch from 30:43

   • Programme director autonomy and funding structures

     “I'll do that very quickly because it follows up on what we've been discussing already. Program directors retain a great deal of autonomy. How do they allocate their funding with that autonomy? And what approaches have been taken to allocate…”

     Watch from 32:41

3. House of Lords · House of Lords · 4 September 2026

   • Early years, primary education and GCSE thresholds

     “Forgive me, my lords, it's a huge privilege to speak following the noble lady Baroness Maryon-Buller, for whom I have a huge respect and tremble so often when I see her, but always with respect. And I want to say…”

     Watch from 2:14:06

4. House of Lords · House of Lords · 2 September 2026

   • PTSD in childbirth: prevalence, evidence and primary care

     “My Lords, I think the noble lady is referring to a paper by Susan Ayers, who's studied this for many years. Indeed, it's certainly not a new problem. In the literature, there are over 700 papers on post-traumatic stress disorder…”

     Watch from 38:36

5. House of Lords · House of Lords · 20 July 2026

   • Tax relief for cultural outreach and value of music teachers

     “Music teachers make a great difference to education generally. That changes collaboration, it changes reading ability and a whole range of other things as well. And therefore that has to be done by music teachers and they should be available…”

     Watch from 1:15:42

6. Science and Technology Committee · House of Lords · 14 July 2026

   • Success rates and learning from unsuccessful applications

     “Thank you very much indeed for coming along to talk to us today. It's really a couple of quick questions. I should just declare an interest as a member of Imperial College, I have a chair there, and I'm a…”

     Watch from 34:33

   • Success rates and learning from unsuccessful applications

     “That's very helpful, thank you. And just a quick one, God, my mind's gone blank suddenly, it's ridiculous. I'll come back to that, it doesn't matter, it's fine, thank you.”

     Watch from 37:32

   • Interdisciplinary funding and joining up research councils

     “Yes, there was there were a couple of other issues. One of the things that's always been a problem has been the joining up of different research areas where they, for example, there's been a problem in the research council…”

     Watch from 41:56