Backbench Business Committee
23 June 2026
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Backbench Business Committee House of Commons
00:03 - 00:35
Speaker 12
Order. Welcome to the meeting of the Backbench Business Committee when we'll be considering applications from colleagues for debates in both the Chamber and in Westminster Hall. For our viewers online, apologies we're starting late because of divisions in the main Chamber. The first application that we're going to hear is from John Milne. The debate title is Life of Dr Susan Michaelis and this is for a general debate in the Chamber.
John, please present.
00:35 - 01:43
Speaker 33
Dr Susan Michaelis was an extraordinary woman whose contribution spanned aviation, scientific research, and public health campaigning. Despite coping with serious illness herself, she spent the final years of her life fighting for everyone living with lobular breast cancer. Lobular breast cancer is the second most common form of the breast cancer, but it has no specific treatment. It doesn't form lumps, so it often gets missed by mammograms. Susan started the Lobular Moonshot Project to raise funding for essential research into the biology of this disease, without which no treatment can be devised.
More than 465 sitting members of Parliament now support this campaign, and that's more than any other. Even Sinn Féin MPs have signed up. And that tells us something important about Susan. She had an extraordinary ability to persuade, to bring people together, to make people care. Susan was due to meet the Health Secretary but died sadly just days before that meeting.
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