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HANSARDBreast CancerI do not know if I dare comment about vested interest, but why not? I am not aware that there is a final limit. It is on request.15 Dec 2025HANSARDBreast CancerBreast cancer is one of the most common cancers, and more than 50,000 were diagnosed with it in 2023. My noble friend Lady Hodge gave further information. On the point about…15 Dec 2025HANSARDBreast CancerI hope I have outlined to your Lordships’ House how the AgeX trial will greatly assist. Clinical evidence, as and when it is available—it is sought actively—is acted on by the…15 Dec 2025HANSARDBreast CancerPart of the 10-year plan, as we move from analogue to digital, will be ensuring that digital exclusion will not be a barrier. As I mentioned in response to my noble friend, it is…15 Dec 2025HANSARDBreast CancerMy noble friend makes a very powerful case; I am grateful to her for doing so. The UK National Screening Committee continuously monitors emerging evidence through horizon scanning…15 Dec 2025HANSARDBreast CancerMy Lords, too many women are dying of breast cancer. Even with a national screening programme, tragically, 11,500 die from breast cancer each year in the UK. AgeX, a large and…15 Dec 2025HANSARDEmergency AdrenalineI know that the noble Lord always seeks to be helpful. That is indeed a helpful suggestion, which I will gladly take away, but I will not be able to give a commitment, as the…15 Dec 2025HANSARDEmergency AdrenalineThe noble Lord raises a point on the practical and safety concerns that we would need to consider in widening access to adrenaline in the community. I should add that that would…15 Dec 2025HANSARDEmergency AdrenalineThis is an important part of the availability, as the noble Lord has highlighted. The kind of issues under consideration when we look at the availability of these welcome products…15 Dec 2025HANSARDEmergency AdrenalineWe have been focusing our efforts, as I said, on whether changes to the law are required to allow wider access to, for example, adrenaline nasal sprays, which are a welcome…15 Dec 2025HANSARDEmergency AdrenalineI very much understand my noble friend’s personal involvement in this area. I congratulate her on her work in promoting the availability of needle-free delivery of adrenaline, and…15 Dec 2025HANSARDEmergency AdrenalineMy Lords, the Government welcome the approval of needle-free adrenaline delivery methods in July. The medicines regulator, the MHRA, recommended consideration of changes to…15 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am sure that my noble and learned friend will comment on the noble Lord’s points, but the point I wished to make, which might be helpful, is that it is usual practice for the…12 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI refer the noble Lord to the provisions within the Bill. His earlier question was very much about policy. I am sure that my noble and learned friend will also refer to this, but…12 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI hope that the comments I have made already indicate where we are concerned, rather than going into further areas, but I would be very happy to look at the noble Lord’s point. I…12 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIt is important I reclarify that that is a policy decision. What I am doing with your Lordships’ Committee is advising on risks, to assist noble Lords to make their decision…12 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillFirst, I am referring to the amendments before us. Secondly, I am advising on risk and workability, again for the assistance of your Lordships’ Committee, which, as is correct and…12 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI hear the noble Lord, but my role today, as I am sure he understands, is to advise your Lordships on the risks as we see them and for noble Lords to decide how they wish to…12 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I thank noble Lords for their contributions on proposed safeguards relating to general practice. I will keep my comments limited to the amendments on which the…12 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am most apologetic and grateful for the clarification. I hope that the noble Baroness, Lady Hollins, will forgive me, too. I will continue. The GP must also have seen them at…12 Dec 2025