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HANSARDKing’s SpeechThe firebombing of synagogues, the Golders Green stabbings, the Heaton Park murders—the whole country clearly needs to wake up to what is happening. The Government are right,…18 May 2026HANSARDCancer Outcomes in the UKMy Lords, I pile on to the congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Patel, on this fantastic session. Given the excellence of the contributions that we have already heard, I will…21 Apr 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI will be equivalently concise. It is important to connect Amendment 657, which specifies that assisted dying “is not to be regarded as medical treatment”, with our debate on the…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords—27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI thank the noble and learned Lord for giving away. One answer would be to simply put in the Bill that this is not a treatment, in which case all the other consequences would not…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI think the noble and learned Lord has just made a very important point. To clarify: he is saying that Clause 31(8)(b) would not apply in hospices; in other words, as drafted, the…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillTo clarify, I think Clause 31(8)(b) prevents a hospice as an employer restricting its employees from participating in assisted dying if they do it somewhere else. Is the noble and…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI think what follows from that is that the noble and learned Lord is accepting the position that hospices will not be in a position to restrict their employees from participating…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMost of the amendments in this group relate to Wales, but some of them also relate to Scotland. Notwithstanding the noble Lord’s sensation of Groundhog Day, there has been an…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe noble Baroness brings me neatly on to the second point I was going to make, which is that the lack of safeguards in Scotland precisely demonstrates the constitutional and…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillCan the noble and learned Lord elaborate on his second reason?20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIs the noble and learned Lord suggesting that Scottish health professionals will be travelling south to undertake assisted dying? Is it a sort of Berwick-upon-Tweed provision?20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIt is not so much a matter of prejudice because, as I understand it, this provision was inserted in the House of Commons in the anticipation that the Scottish Parliament was going…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI would be interested to come back to that on Report when we have had a chance to investigate that point further. Fundamentally, this shows that there is a great problem, a…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillPerhaps the noble and learned Lord will clarify the answer he gave on Scotland. I think he is saying that even though the Scottish Parliament has decided that assisted dying…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillOn the thrust of the argument, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, that approaching this probabilistically, rather than with a single number, clearly makes sense. It is…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I will speak briefly to two amendments in this group, the first being Amendment 334. In particular, I hope to draw the attention of the noble and learned Lord, Lord…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillEven if the noble and learned Lord does not adopt the scheme put forward by the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, would he nevertheless accept that, for the co-ordinating doctors, it…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, contrary to Amendment 129, I think that the Bill gets it right in requiring, at Clause 4(3), that the voluntary assisted dying commissioner must hold or have held office…27 Feb 2026HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillMy Lords, I declare my interest as chair of Cancer Research UK. Given that smoking continues to be the single biggest cause of cancer, it will not be a surprise that I oppose the…24 Feb 2026