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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I have in this group an amendment that was recommended by the Complex Life and Death Decisions group at King’s and which builds on the clause that was proposed in the…06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I would like to provide some information to the Committee which I think supports these amendments quite well. Care England, which has 122 care providers, consulted its…06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMay I finish my list of questions and then the noble and learned Lord can come back? Can he write to us to tell us who Chris Whitty spoke to before giving evidence to the…06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords—06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI wonder whether the noble Lord, in reading the Mental Capacity Act and Amendment 115, has recognised that the wording in Amendment 115 is deliberately taken from the Mental…06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe noble and learned Lord is correct that that is a challenge that has been put forward—that, as the Bill is currently written, that may be the case, but Amendment 115 would…06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillCould the noble and learned Lord clarify whether or not the legal framework we are talking about in the Bill is to be applied by the assessing doctors?06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMay I finally ask the noble and learned Lord my questions? I waited until he had finished. Does he recognise that the Mental Capacity Act has no test at its start because the…06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillAll right, I will stop there and come back in afterwards.06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWould the noble and learned Lord consider the T1DE group? Eating disorder charities recognise not only that this is a serious group but that it has a very high mortality rate.06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Viscount, Lord Colville, for having spoken so clearly and eloquently to Amendment 115, which I tabled because it was suggested by the Complex…06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I wonder if I might briefly apologise to the Committee. I was reading a quote—they were not my words. The quote was about a young woman who was said to have committed…06 Feb 2026HANSARDMedical Training (Prioritisation) BillMy Lords, I declare my recent observer role with the Medical Schools Council, and as a pro-chancellor at Cardiff University, which, of course, has a medical school. The Bill aims…04 Feb 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, it was 19 years ago that I had the privilege of chairing the Science and Technology Committee’s inquiry into allergy for this House. I remind the House that, even then,…03 Feb 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill02 Feb 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I am not moving this amendment, but I feel I owe it to the House to explain why I took my name off it when it had been drafted. I was contacted by the Chief Minister of…02 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillBefore the noble and learned Lord sits down and we end this, I have a real concern. If we are going to have a review from when the law is implemented, and it reports and decides…30 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, in the previous debate we had an interesting discussion about the importance of face to face. I think the conclusion was that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer,…30 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am most grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Hendy, with whom I have had conversations going back to last September. I have looked after many patients dying of mesothelioma, and it…30 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill30 Jan 2026