Stephen O'Brien

Health-related votes

• Voted for an amendment to reduce the upper limit for abortions from 24 week to 22 weeks  
• Voted for an amendment to strengthen laws to make IVF clinics consider the ‘need for a father and a mother’ before allowing women to begin fertility treatment 
• Voted for an amendment against the relaxation of laws governing the circumstances in which children genetically matched to a sibling with a genetic disease can be generated by IVF 
• Did not vote on a backbench amendment calling for a ban on all hybrid embryos
• Voted for an amendment to remove references to foundation hospitals from the health and social care bill
• Did not vote on an amendment opposing the creation of foundation hospitals

Source: politics.guardian.co.uk

Recent appearances

• Said a Tory government would make dementia services a “priority”
• Argued the Personal Care at Home Bill needed more scrutiny than the government wanted to give it