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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe Government can perfectly well say that they do not have a view on this, but, for Parliament to make a decision, surely they have to tell us whether, if we made this decision,…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, we have asked the Minister on several occasions to give us the information that I think the Government still need to give us: what is the cost of doing these things? The…23 Jan 2026HANSARDArrangement of BusinessMy Lords, I want to raise the concern of Jewish Members of the House, who are in a particular difficulty on Fridays. Perhaps it is better for somebody who is not Jewish to put…16 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI hope that it was an intervention, because, if so, I am able to comment on it. If we start talking about paternalism, we will go backwards in time. We are not really talking…16 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillJust one point, as a matter of personal explanation, I did not call the noble and learned Lord Stonewall; it was the noble Lord, Lord Empey, who did so and I do not want to take…16 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMay I interrupt? I did not for one moment suggest that I was concerned about this because people were opposed to the Bill. What I said—indeed, I said this specifically—was that I…16 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillCan I encourage the noble and learned Lord in what he has just said? I was going to intervene earlier, but decided I would wait for this moment. I am afraid the noble Baroness,…16 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillDoes my noble friend accept that one of the problems is that the organisations of these very people whom we are trusting have said that they want clarification on these things.…16 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIt seems to me that this an opportunity for the noble and learned Lord to help the Committee and speed the Bill. Here are a whole series of amendments designed to deal with the…16 Jan 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I rise for two reasons. First, I think it is dangerous to leave lawyers to talk about these matters without the intervention of non-lawyers. Secondly, although I can…15 Jan 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillThe noble Lord explained that I should be happy because this had been requested by those who knew. Those who knew also requested that in the document itself, in the actual Act,…15 Jan 2026HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillMy Lords, I will just come back to the issue of the environment, which is crucial here. I have a direct question to the Minister, whom I particularly respect in this area. Why on…12 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIt is of crucial importance for us to know whether, if we pass the Bill in these terms, other people who are in desperate need would find that they had to wait longer for that…09 Jan 2026HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillWhat the Minister repeats is what the Mauritian Government have promised. I do not in any way attack what they have promised, but they cannot do it. They have not done it anywhere…05 Jan 2026HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillI remind my noble friend that not only the British Government but voluntary organisations have been doing this, and it is because of the backing of the British Government that…05 Jan 2026HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillMy Lords, I remind the House of my interest as a trustee of the Blue Marine Foundation for many years and having been part of the negotiations with the British Government to…05 Jan 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I have not taken part in this Bill before, but I do so now because I have been closely connected with someone who was treated by a so-called psychotherapist and removed…17 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillCould I be vulgarly practical about this, because of a point the noble Baroness mentioned, which is the parallelism with the deposit return scheme that got into terrible trouble?…12 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, we are supposed to be making the Bill more practical; it does not make it more practical to ask for something that is manifestly impossible. I could not demand assisted…12 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI agree with that, but the point of the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Rook, is to tie together a period of someone being in the National Health Service. I agreed with the…12 Dec 2025