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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill30 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Keeley, has already alluded to the issue of wills, so I will not go to that, but there is another legal precedent, Devon Partnership NHS Trust v…30 Jan 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI think the amendment has been proposed with the wording on the Marshalled List and the noble Lord has spoken to it, but he may now wish to withdraw it.27 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThat is a very helpful intervention because the evidence from the places that have gone down this road and changed their legislation is that the unassisted suicide rate does not…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIf I may, I would like to come on to the issue of the information around drugs, because that is key. But I did not want people to think that simply signing the form was adequate.…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, this group of amendments is about the process of information giving. The lead amendment, Amendment 39A, is about the person having an understanding. In any process of…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, in introducing this group of amendments, the noble Lord, Lord Birt, said that one of the reasons he tabled them was that the proposals in the Bill are potentially…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am grateful to the noble Lord for his intervention, but I think we need to stay focused on the amendments in this group and not get diverted. That is what I am trying to do. In…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWhen you prescribe a drug for a patient, NICE may have given approval for it, but the side effects, the toxic effects and the interaction with other drugs is not determined by…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe noble and learned Lord has not responded to the question of what the doctor does if the patient develops the complication of not dying. The patient may begin to reawaken, but…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillOf course patients are welcome to refuse. I am slightly worried by the noble Lord’s phrase “I just want the injection”. The Bill is very clear: this is about self-administration.…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI seek a little more clarification. The noble and learned Lord just said that the doctor should act in a way to save the patient’s life. In that case, if the patient takes their…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIt might be helpful to add that, in normal procedure, you would explain to a patient what the complications may be but also what you will do. This Bill does not say what you will…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, the noble Lord asked about data. During the Select Committee that was held on Lord Joffe’s Bill on this subject, the Royal College of Pathologists told us in evidence…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI have looked after thousands and thousands of patients, and I have to say that I have never come across someone who said they wanted to be terminally ill and to have their…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, the noble Baroness has prompted me to return to the point made by my noble friend Lady Cass, because the chance of being right about six months has been estimated at…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am grateful to the noble Lord for referring to that letter and quoting the amounts of money in it. Does he recognise that that is one-off and not recurring funding, and there is…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI have a short question, if I may. If I heard it right, the noble and learned Lord said that he would bring forward an amendment to put asking the question of why in the Bill.…23 Jan 2026HANSARDDomestic Violence Against ChildrenMy Lords, will the Government undertake to work with the AFRUCA organisation? Often, a problem for girls with skin of colour is that bruises do not show. Therefore, the people who…19 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, this has in many ways been a fascinating debate, which has clearly illustrated the problems of this being a Private Member’s Bill and the difficulties that we are having…16 Jan 2026