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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillCould the noble Lord indicate which amendment he is talking to?20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI have sympathy with what the noble Lord says. I do not think it is appropriate for that sort of issue to be resolved in a Bill such as this, and it goes far wider than assisted…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I will respond to the sensible invitation of the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey, to give a brief indication as to what my amendments here do. The noble Baroness, Lady…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am not in favour of a mandatory bar on any young person. I expect it to be dealt with in a code of practice. I agree that unless there is a mandatory provision in the Bill it…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI did not quite understand the question, but I think the noble Baroness is going back to her amendments that we discussed previously about how you have to have regard to the…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWhat I understand the noble Baroness to be saying is that a doctor who will not conduct the conversation because, for example, he or she is against it on conscience grounds, might…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIn relation to the point from the noble Baroness, Lady Berridge, that there should be an absolute exclusion on interpreters under 18, she makes the point that in a case involving,…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am greatly obliged. I will go through the amendments but, before I start, it is clear, as I said when I introduced my amendment, that the purpose of the independent advocate is…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillOur approach to this has been to respect the devolution settlement, which, for better or for worse, unquestionably leaves criminal justice to this Parliament, not to the Welsh…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillAbsolutely not. Indeed, the way the Bill is drafted makes it absolutely clear that the independent advocate is there to assist in the process of obtaining the consents and making…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, can I share everybody’s genuine pleasure that the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, is here? Can I not congratulate him on telling us about it? I would have done, but he told me…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIt was asked to vote on the principle of whether this should be dealt with by the Welsh Senedd, because one of the amendments to the Motion for legislative consent was that it…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords—20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am very grateful to the noble Baronesses, Lady Hollins and Lady Nicholson of Winterbourne, for sharing their experiences with us—in the case of the noble Baroness, Lady…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) 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) BillI am totally confused by this speech. The complaint being made by the noble Baroness is that this should be dealt with by Wales. We took the view that if the legislative consent…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 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) 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 2026