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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillFirst, it is said on both sides that they want more money for palliative care, but we now know that palliative care includes assisted dying. I therefore do not accept that the…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWhat I am saying is very simple: the proposers of this Bill have not properly taken into account the particularities that the Welsh have put forward so nobly and well by the noble…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWe are not going to change the devolution settlement in this Bill—of course we are not. That is not the issue and that is not what is before us. Instead, this comes back to the…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am pleased that I gave time for the noble Baroness to talk, given that she thinks all of this is nitpicking. I remind the House that is what she said about the work we are…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe proposal here is not isolating them in all the things that matter; it is doing something quite different. It is saying that those who are looking after them continue to look…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI will give way in a moment but I wish to finish my sentence—and to being a society that cares for people right to the end of their lives. I know what sort of society I want to…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe point about the drugs and their control will surely have to be dealt with by the Government, whatever happens. What assessment have they made—surely they ought to make it in…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillDoes the noble and learned Lord agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Murphy, that assisted dying is part of palliative care?13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillOne problem with using the word “compassionate” is that it is a mechanism for suggesting that one’s own answers to these issues are compassionate and other people’s are not. I…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIf the Minister does not mind me saying so, this is a real problem. If we do not know—because only the Government can tell us—what the mechanism whereby drugs would be dealt with…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThat may well be the view of the noble Baroness, but it is not the view of the Royal Colleges, and it is not the view of the Select Committees of this House that have looked at…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I was not going to speak on this, but the last speaker has led me to do so. To describe the care with which this proposal has been put forward as “nitpicking” is frankly…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWe have already told the noble and learned Lord what we think about the impact assessment. We have been asking for an updated impact assessment which takes into account the…27 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I have tried in my contributions, which have been few although I have in fact been present for almost every moment of this Bill, to point out to the noble and learned…27 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI thank my noble friend for that intervention, and it is important. I have been trying to be very careful not to suggest that those in favour of this Bill are in favour of it as a…27 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I did not intend to speak on this particular amendment until something happened at lunchtime. I have to apologise to the noble and learned Lord, because I am not sure…27 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIf that is the argument the noble and learned Lord puts forward, with which I entirely agree, does it not lead him to understand that the proposal of the noble Lord who spoke…27 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI think it perfectly right for the noble Baroness to have intervened because I referred to her, and I apologise. I want the noble and learned Lord proposing the Bill to face three…27 Feb 2026HANSARDAnimal Welfare Strategy: Rural CommunitiesDoes the Minister accept that although we respect her position, the present Government are extremely unpopular in the countryside and that she is going to have to work extremely…12 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI have some sympathy with the noble Baroness. She is very fortunate with the care home her husband is in, as is he. For many years, I represented the constituency that had perhaps…06 Feb 2026