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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I support and have added my name to Amendment 771ZA, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Mackinlay, which would prevent the assisted dying service being part of the NHS.…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, for the purposes of the point I am making, I am going to proceed on the assumption that was put forward by the sponsors that the drugs used for an assisted death are to…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, when I first read this Bill, I realised that there was something important missing—a first stage, if you like. This group of amendments is probably one of the most…09 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I have added my name to several of my noble friend’s amendments and I would like to congratulate him on finding a solution that could allow the Bill to meet one of the…09 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I agree with the noble Lord who has just spoken. I also support the idea of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, that the Bill needs more time for scrutiny than is…08 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I would like to comment on this group in response to what the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, has just said. In its recent briefing for Peers, the Royal College…12 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I welcome the comments from the noble and learned Lord. General practice is very different today from when I practised as a GP earlier in my career; it was certainly not…12 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIt is the Equality Act, not the disability Act. I suggested that the definition of “disability” in the Equality Act, with respect to something like this, would in fact include…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIf such a meeting were to take place, I would be delighted to ask the noble and learned Lord to consider the alternative wording I proposed when I spoke to the amendment.05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I have an amendment in this group and I support the noble Baroness, Lady Berger, in this. I just want to add to earlier comments. The transition from children’s to adult…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendment 405 because the Equality Act is relevant to it. It provides a legal duty to provide reasonable adjustments for disabled people, which…05 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Services: Online CommunicationsMy Lords, of the 11 million people who do not have the essential digital skills for life, more than half are disabled people, and the barriers created by digital approaches…02 Dec 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I want to acknowledge the extensive discussions about how the Act will apply to people with learning disabilities and autistic people. We know that Clause 3 will not be…24 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I have amendments in this group, and I have added my name to other amendments. I start by adding my support to Amendment 460, tabled by my noble friend Lady Finlay.…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThere is no suggestion in anything that I have said of imposing palliative care—none at all. I have listened to the debate, and I was not going to speak personally but I will now,…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI thank the noble Baroness. I thought about that, and it could indeed be brought back in a different way later in the debate, but I feel that the prevention of coercion is really…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillBefore the noble Baroness sits down, can I just ask which amendments she was speaking to, because this is Committee and not Second Reading? Every amendment that I have tabled is…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, we are going to address palliative care in detail in a later group. We are going to make a distinction between palliative care of a general kind and specialist…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I want to add a correction for the noble Lord, Lord Winston. The Royal College of Psychiatrists voted on the principle and it was a 50:50 split. The issue of this Bill…14 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I am glad to be able to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Monckton. I declare my interests as a past president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and I have a…14 Nov 2025