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HANSARDPension Schemes Bill23 Mar 2026HANSARDUK Energy Sources and Cost of EnergyMy Lords, I declare my interest as a director of Peers for the Planet. Given what the Minister said about this being, in essence, a price security issue, what progress have the…19 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am grateful to the noble Lord. I was trying particularly to get to the point of the doctor’s role. I understand what he says, and he is quite right. I was trying to advocate…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I have found some of this discussion quite difficult to compute with my own very limited—non-doctor—experience of end-of-life care and relatives who have been dying. The…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIt is very important that the doctor should listen to the wishes of the patient. I certainly think that a doctor should not be able to force-feed a patient in those circumstances.13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley, not least because I often do not agree with her but I did agree with several of the things she has just…27 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWill the noble Baroness accept that we would have to define “support” and how it is different from “bereavement services”? Then we will have more of these complications.27 Feb 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, I declare my interests as a director of Peers for the Planet and a previous chair of that organisation. In this group of amendments, we address long-term systemic risks…23 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI understand that, and I understand that my mother would not have been considered to have committed suicide. What I am trying to say is that her desire for her life to end, and…06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, the noble Lord says that we should understand the ordinary meaning of words, and I agree with him. I must say to him, however, that my own mother—who turned her face to…06 Feb 2026HANSARDUS Department of Justice Release of FilesMy Lords, I welcome what the noble Baroness the Leader of the House said about looking at whether the Code of Conduct needs to be strengthened. But would she agree with me that in…05 Feb 2026HANSARDUS Department of Justice Release of FilesMy Lords—05 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI understand that the noble Lord was talking about a subset of consultations, but this is my point: I think he accepted that there might, in any process, be exceptional…30 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I will briefly follow on from the noble Lord on the issue of overengineering. I had great sympathy with the words of the noble Baroness, Lady Blackstone, and I suspect…30 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe noble Lord is of course completely correct that there is nothing in the Companion . It is however difficult for many Members, when they have spoken in a debate, not to be able…09 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, I declare my interests as a past chair and present director of Peers for the Planet. It is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord in what he has just said. We have…18 Dec 2025HANSARDArrangement of BusinessMy Lords, very briefly, I am extremely grateful to the Chief Whip for what he has said. Enforcing the Companion is obviously a prime responsibility of the Whip, the Front Bench…12 Dec 2025HANSARDSupply of Blood and Blood ProductsTo ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure the supply of blood and blood products this winter.03 Dec 2025HANSARDSupply of Blood and Blood ProductsMy Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for that encouraging reply, and particularly for the reinstatement of the parliamentary donation service. However, as she says, this is a…03 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI obviously did not express myself very clearly. I was not in any way suggesting that this was a government Bill to which the conventions applied or that there was any reason why…14 Nov 2025