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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, this debate seems to have characterised everyone in the House as being either supporters or opponents of the Bill. I declare myself somewhere in the middle, and I…24 Apr 2026HANSARDNHS Adult Gender Identity ClinicsMy Lords, we know that the 18 to 25 year-olds have many of the same complex problems as the under-18s and, as the Minister has said, they need similar holistic wraparound care,…15 Apr 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 383. I have so far limited my speeches on the Bill to a maximum of two to three minutes but on this one occasion I would like to take more…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMay I respond to that? I have not said that they cannot be part of the team. It is likely that the person who is covering a particular area or locality will be known to the team…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThey would; that is the point of it. Your co-ordinating professional, as I described them, would be with you throughout, as would the specialist assisted dying doctor, from the…27 Mar 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillNobody here is saying that consultations are all a waste of time. What we are saying is that this particular consultation is deeply flawed in its construction.25 Mar 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I was going to talk about the consultation, which is fundamentally not fit for purpose, but other noble Lords have covered that well, so I want to make a couple of other…25 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I will speak to a number of amendments in this group. I can be briefer on some because the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, has copied some of my homework and…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillNot at all. When I first saw the term “independent advocates” in the Bill, I worried because, in my clinical career as a neurodisability consultant, I have had some very negative…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, on the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, the person or people who will make the best judgment about prognosis will be the treating team: the treating doctor…20 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I will be very brief. When it comes to assessing risk to children, a plastic bath duck has better risk assessment than AI chatbots. I fully support my noble friend’s…18 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillTo clarify, whether we take the system proposed by my noble friend or the original system with the series of doctors, it is very unlikely under any circumstance that the clinician…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I say to the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, that my mother held doctors in great esteem and reverence until the day that I and my rowdy friends qualified, and then the whole…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am still not sure what a person is supposed to do if they cannot access a doctor who is in possession of the full information. If the GP, for example, has a conscientious…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill27 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I will be brief, because I believe that my Amendment 122 and the consequential amendments that follow it address a very straightforward and practical issue—saying that…27 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillLong speeches are unpopular at the best of times, but particularly as I now stand between noble Lords and lunch, so I will try not to make one. It has been a very useful group. We…27 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I rise very briefly to draw attention to Amendment 928 in the name of my noble friend Lady Hollins, who cannot be in her place today. There are two ways of getting…27 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI want to make two very brief points. First, I support the point made about proposed new subsection (6)(g), to be inserted by Amendment 115, by the noble Viscount, Lord Colville,…06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI would never come at the noble and learned Lord, for whom I have the greatest respect. We de facto have to make changes to the Mental Capacity Act in the application of this,…06 Feb 2026