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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am most grateful. My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to the debate on this group. As is my consistent introduction, my remarks will focus only on issues…12 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their contributions on this group. To echo the comments of my noble friend the Chief Whip, the Government remain neutral on the…12 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 am grateful to the noble Lord and feel that this would probably be a very appropriate point to move on to my noble and learned friend.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 2025HANSARDWheelchair and Community Equipment StrategyMy Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend Lord Hunt, not just for securing this important debate on a vital issue, as the noble Lord, Lord Kamall, said, but for his…11 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am sorry to hear of the noble Baroness’s surprise. I am simply setting out where the Government have particular concerns within the scope to which I referred. My noble and…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am sure the noble Baroness will understand that I am restricted in the comments that I can appropriately make here. I heard my noble and learned friend Lord Falconer say that…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to this debate on the issue of residency and eligibility criteria. As I have already made clear and will now repeat, I…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their contributions to this debate on the age of eligibility for those who are provided with assistance under the Bill. I have made it…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe point that I was making just before I sat down was that noble Lords will want to consider the points that I have raised in relation to these amendments. I am sure that they…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I, too, shall be brief. All but three of the amendments in this group have been tabled by the Bill’s sponsor and, as has been discussed, they make a series of drafting…05 Dec 2025HANSARDSupply of Blood and Blood ProductsWe are making considerable progress in diversifying where plasma comes from. We are also making good progress in demand management and ensuring that there is no waste in blood…03 Dec 2025HANSARDSupply of Blood and Blood ProductsMy Lords, NHS Blood and Transplant has expanded donation capacity to meet the nation’s needs, opening three new donor centres and additional mobile sessions, adding 3,900 weekly…03 Dec 2025HANSARDSupply of Blood and Blood ProductsThe noble Lord is also to be congratulated, of course. As he said, despite our having some 790,000 regular donors, only 2% of the population gives blood, so we are not full up and…03 Dec 2025HANSARDSupply of Blood and Blood ProductsThat is part of the potential solution, in addition to where donors go, how they are communicated with and how easily they can make appointments. We will certainly put the noble…03 Dec 2025HANSARDSupply of Blood and Blood ProductsI am not sure that I agree with the reflections of my noble friend, although I do agree that we have a shortfall of some 200,000 donors to shore up and grow our blood supply. As I…03 Dec 2025HANSARDSupply of Blood and Blood ProductsOf course, is the answer to the noble Lord. On his point about reaching certain groups, we have invested across 51 organisations this year that are very much rooted in the…03 Dec 2025HANSARDSupply of Blood and Blood ProductsThe noble Baroness is quite right. We have to go to where people are and not just expect them to come to us, and using a whole range of venues is important, as are mobile donation…03 Dec 2025