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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillBefore the Minister moves on, Kim Leadbeater specifically introduced this concept of England and Wales, and, in Committee, Stephen Kinnock did not raise any issues with it at all…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI notice that the noble and learned Lord has taken interventions. I do not believe that he has addressed my issue about the risk of tourism. He has used interchangeably during his…05 Dec 2025HANSARDAutumn Budget 2025My Lords, I cannot welcome this Budget. It is a bad Budget for Britain, in terms of not only lack of growth but rising unemployment and inflation. Looked at from pretty much every…04 Dec 2025HANSARDBiodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction BillI am grateful for the advice, but I will carry on with a few things. We get criticised in Committee for doing Second Reading speeches when we are trying to understand the passage…02 Dec 2025HANSARDBiodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction BillMy Lords, the adoption of the high seas treaty in 2023 marked one of the most significant achievements in international environmental governance in decades. The treaty fills a…02 Dec 2025HANSARDNuclear Regulatory Taskforce ReviewMy Lords, it is sad that the Minister is trying to bring party politics into this. I live near nuclear power stations. From 1997 to 2010, Labour did not do a single thing about…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for her comments on Motion G and assets of community value. I am conscious of the new Bill that will arrive here. I am also very grateful for the…24 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWould the noble and learned Lord write to me with the answer to the question I asked earlier?21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I have tabled Amendments 47 and 49. It should be no surprise to noble Lords that this group is going to take some time, because it is probably one of the most important…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I still have tabled amendments to speak to, but I will let the noble Baroness, Lady Rafferty, go first.21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe noble and learned Lord has just made a point about the risk of coercion and referred to a psychiatrist. It would be very helpful to understand what clause in the Bill he is…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI think the noble Baroness’s amendment about videoing affects Clause 25, which is considerably later, when the Act is about to happen. I wonder whether she would consider whether…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI want very briefly to put on record that Professor Sir Chris Whitty is not the Chief Medical Officer for England and Wales, but for England only. I will wait for another time for…14 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe importance of the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay of Llandaff, is that, as has already been well described, there are genuine concerns about the…14 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI hope that the department will take a better attitude in determining things such as freedom of information requests. We have already had from the Cabinet Office whether it is now…14 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI think the key difference is that, when this Bill started, it was going to be judge-led. Now it is not and, as a consequence, we are talking about one of the most experienced…14 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI will respond to that. I do not know the answer about the noble Baroness, Lady Murphy. However, I say to the Committee and to the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, that amendments have…14 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, group 1 is perhaps not the ordinary place to start when we are considering the issue of Wales, but I have tabled 40 amendments with specific reference to Wales for a…14 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am very interested in that, because the response that I have had from the Minister is that nobody should be working on this beyond the Bill team, so nobody should be working on…14 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I was brief at the start because I wanted to give the Minister the chance to be transparent for the benefit of this House. I am sorry to say that I hope that the letter…14 Nov 2025