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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe noble Baroness, Lady Berger, is quite correct. That is exactly what happened in the Select Committee. For my sins, I sit on a surfeit of committees, including the Delegated…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, there is an unreality about this debate that gives rise to a question for the sponsor of the Bill and the Minister. The unreality is this: the noble Lord, Lord Birt, has…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillImagine I were a poor person who went before the panel and opted for an assisted death, but said, “Were I rich, I would not do this; I would take my chance on the diagnosis being…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIt may be helpful for the Committee if I simply read, very briefly, for the assistance of considering this amendment, what the former Chief Coroner of England and Wales, Justice…16 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI will be extremely brief but, as I said, I have tabled an amendment and have been waiting patiently to speak to it, if I may. My Amendment 394 would require the assessing doctor…09 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI have an amendment to which I have not yet been able to speak. Surely it is right and proper that those of us who have tabled amendments should be able to speak—especially where,…09 Jan 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I strongly commend the report of the noble Lord, Lord Walney, which I have read. My purpose in speaking, very briefly, is to interrogate Amendment 369, in the light of…07 Jan 2026HANSARDMiddle East and North AfricaReturning to Alaa Abd el-Fattah, Paul Ovenden, who was until recently the Prime Minister’s own director of strategy, wrote the following remarkable paragraph: “What I knew of his…07 Jan 2026HANSARDMuslim BrotherhoodOn the subject of extremism in the United Kingdom, can the Minister say whether the Government intend to replace Robin Simcox, the counter-extremism commissioner? If so, by when?…05 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I will speak very briefly in support of Amendment 23, which was spoken to by the noble Lord, Lord Frost, bearing in mind that amendments in Committee very often are…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I will be extremely brief. Rather than speak to my own Amendment 229, I simply suggest to the Committee that the bulk of the evidence we heard in the Select Committee…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, in debating ability and capacity, I will speak briefly as a member not only of the Delegated Powers Committee that considered the Bill but of the Select Committee that…14 Nov 2025HANSARDEconomic and Taxation Policies: Jobs, Growth and ProsperityMy Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell on securing this important debate, on his penetrating criticism of the Government’s economic policy, echoed by…13 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, others have referred to report of the Delegated Powers Committee on the Bill. I am a member of that committee, but I should emphasise that I, of course, speak today for…12 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I rise, as my noble friend on the Front Bench said a moment ago, to speak to my Amendments 85A, 88B and 88C, which seek to effect the recommendations of the Delegated…01 Sept 2025HANSARDMigrants: Hotel AccommodationMy Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my noble friend’s name on the Order Paper.01 Jul 2025HANSARDMigrants: Hotel AccommodationI thank the Minister for that Answer and apologise for not being my noble friend Lord Evans. He has a contact who runs a series of hostels for backpackers, many of whom are young…01 Jul 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillMy Lords, I support Amendments 4 and 4A, moved by the noble Lord, Lord Verdirame. This has been a passionate debate. It is possible to believe that in the course of time a…11 Jun 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI warmly congratulate my noble friend Lord Harper on a very deft, excellent and accomplished maiden speech. It is a pleasure and a privilege to follow him. My noble friend was…02 Jun 2025HANSARDIndia-Pakistan: EscalationMy Lords, in respect of local leadership here in Britain, there is a very large number of local councillors of Indian origin, Pakistani origin and, indeed, Kashmiri origin, from…07 May 2025