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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords—27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI completely accept the point about opt-in. I am pressing the noble Lord on his question as to whether there could be a doubt that a doctor is under a duty to raise it, and I am…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillLet me finish. What more could one do to give protection to doctors? Beyond saying that there will never be a duty to raise it or to participate, I cannot think of what wording…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillAmendments 422 and 423 are to create a regulatory power to allow co-ordinating doctors or independent doctors when they step down in certain circumstances not to have to give…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThat is correct.27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWhat I am thinking about is a provision that says if, as a hospice, you say you do not want to provide it, you should not suffer various sorts of institutional detriment. That is…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI never make long interventions. The complaint of the doctors is that they want an opt-in and not an opt-out. Their complaint is not that it is not clear enough that they are…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillNot in that language, not at all. But if, suppose, you are a care assistant giving somebody a bath before the provision of assistance, there is no conscience clause in relation to…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI think we know the differences between us. I have set out what my position is. I am grateful to the noble Baroness for setting out hers again.27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe noble Baroness is right that the opt-in provision that I have introduced is in relation only to the doctors. That is because it is the doctors who are given the particular…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe noble Baroness, Lady Gerada, made it clear that the Royal College of General Practitioners was not in favour of a register. It may well be in favour of an opt-in process, but…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am sorry; I stand corrected. What I was getting at was that they should not feel that they have to separate themselves. If I wanted an assisted death, at home, I would like to…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI express my personal pleasure at seeing the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Prentis, back in the House. She was an extremely successful Attorney-General because she was wise and…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe second reason is that if, for example, you want the protection of employment law, that employment law which extends to the whole of the United Kingdom should protect you in…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWhat the Senedd decided was that it would consent to Welsh Ministers being given power, in effect, to legislate on how to introduce it—that is Clause 42. The effect of the LCM is…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe three reasons why it extends to Scotland are so that people cannot advertise in Scotland to England and Wales, so that people in England and Wales get proper protections if…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillCould I just deal with this? The noble Lord can come back at the end. I shall deal first with the 28 amendments proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey, to remove references…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am in a total muddle about what the noble Lord, Lord Deben, is saying. I think he is trying to say that Wales should decide on implementation. The Bill says: “The Welsh…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillLet me finish. In my view, the right answer in relation to this is that we respect the devolution settlement, and it is for the United Kingdom Parliament to decide whether the law…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillNo, that is not right. The reference to Scotland was included to provide protection for people in England and Wales who, under employment law, wanted to exercise the conscience…20 Mar 2026