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Lords Proceedings 23 June 2026

DVLA: Staffing Levels

My Lords, I will back up what the noble Lord, Lord Hamilton, said and ask the Minister to consider the following. It is one thing to get a driving licence when you pass your test, because you know that you have passed your test. However, when you apply for a renewal at 70, you do not know what will …

Lords Debate 24 April 2026 4 contributions

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

My Lords, I am conscious that many noble Lords wish to speak in this debate. If we work together, everybody standing up will get the chance to speak. If we follow the wise words of the noble Baroness, Lady Harding—we can make our points in four to six minutes very easily—we will all get a chance to …

My Lords, as a fellow Catholic, I make a confession. I have learned an enormous amount from listening to almost every moment of the Bill. The argument that most distresses me is that which suggests that this has been subject to a filibuster. I have learned a great deal, and I am the better for it, a…

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Lords Debate 27 March 2026

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

My Lords, I accept the spirit of the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, so I shall be very brief. I support the noble Baroness, Lady Fraser of Craigmaddie, in her amendment on the register. I understand that one of the things that we are trying to do in this group is to protect professio…

Lords Debate 20 March 2026

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

My Lords, I was deeply interested by the remarks of the noble Baroness, Lady Fraser, and her amendment. I would like to confirm from personal experience that a young man very well known to me can barely speak at all. He has therefore been effectively silent all of his life. Through a system called S…

Lords Debate 13 March 2026 2 contributions

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

As I understand it, the noble Baroness is talking about various possible options. Would she think it a good idea if the doctor were free to advise the patient to stop eating?

I am perhaps imagining the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, as a quivering wreck. If that is how she feels, you can imagine what it is like for most of us when we face our doctors, so the point was made very strongly. There are so many good amendments here and I cannot possibly refer to all of them, but I…

Lords Debate 10 March 2026

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords for their comments and particularly to the noble Lord, Lord True, and the noble Earl, Lord Kinoull, for their warm reception for the way forward. I am also grateful to the noble Lord from the Liberal Democrat Benches—

Lords Proceedings 27 February 2026

Arrangement of Business

My Lords, I take the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, and other noble Lords about courtesy in relation to our proceedings. It would be helpful for those of us who are trying to amend the Bill to be told at the time when we are filibustering, because we do not think we are filibustering and…

Lords Proceedings 26 February 2026

Transnational Repression in the UK (JCHR Report)

My Lords, I declare my interest as a director of the Free Speech Union. I praise the noble Lord, Lord Alton, and the Joint Committee for producing this report and the noble Lord, Lord Isaac, for his brilliant maiden speech. As he knows, I am a big fan because of the work that he has done to promote …

Lords Debate 6 February 2026 2 contributions

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

My Lords, I of course agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Gerada, that there are many different motives for killing yourself, but we are talking about making a law here. It is very important that the natural and ordinary meaning of words is established and preserved. Suicide means killing yourself, …

Perhaps I may follow up on the very sad story from the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, of her mother and how she died. This would not be considered to be suicide under the law, as I understand it. As has been discussed quite a lot during this Bill, refusing treatment is not suicide.

Lords Debate 30 January 2026

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

My Lords, I am glad that the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, said that this was at the heart of the Bill, in the sense that I think he is right; it illustrates one of the Bill’s great problems. It has emerged from this debate—the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, made it clear—that this is very uncertain in me…

Lords Proceedings 30 January 2026

Arrangement of Business

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Chief Whip for his, as always, very kind and helpful explanations. I have a further point to raise, because I think it affects the proceedings of your Lordships’ House as we go on from today. Of course, I would defend to the death the right of the noble and learn…

Lords Debate 23 January 2026 5 contributions

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Stevens, who speaks from great experience and professional knowledge, made a very clear case about how the assisted dying navigator is quite outside the normal purposes of the National Health Service. I guess it could be described, in effect, as a form of advocacy. In …

The point that is being missed was made by the noble Lord, Lord Stevens, and it is the problem with what the noble Lord, Lord Winston, was saying. Can the noble Lord respond to it? We are talking about what the aim of this is, but it is not a health aim. The noble Lord, Lord Winston, spoke of better…

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Lords Debate 16 January 2026 2 contributions

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

My Lords, I support the point about lasting power of attorney that the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey, has made and the noble Lord, Lord Harper, has reinforced, but I also want to look at it another way round. The fear—which is a very justified fear—is that the power could be abused in the case of assi…

My Lords, I find it strange that the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, should be making the argument that the word “dying” tells us all that we need to know. If that were so, we would not need the Bill. The Bill is about a very specific thing, which is choosing to end your own life and getting help with …

Lords Debate 12 December 2025 2 contributions

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

My Lords, I support these amendments, particularly those relating to prisoners and, indeed, what the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, so eloquently expressed. Just before I do, I will also support something that the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, who is now not in his place, said earlier, when he complained …

I am grateful to the noble Lord. As I said, I will come on to the amendment soon, but I want to emphasise this point because I think that it matters a lot in this debate and will matter in the coming weeks. A particularly virulent article in the Times , written by Nicholas Boles—he was, until recent…

Lords Proceedings 18 November 2025

China Espionage: Government Security Response

My Lords, like most speakers so far, I welcome the Minister’s tone in this matter. It is a change of tone, because in the past, so often, the Government have used word “co-operate” followed by the word “challenge”, and “co-operate” has been used as a way of degrading the level of challenge. I hope t…

Lords Proceedings 18 November 2025

Budget: Press Briefings

My Lords, may I ask the Minister a question as a journalist? I wonder what happened to Budget purdah. For years, we journalists could never get anything out of the Treasury before the Budget approached. Nowadays, we print story after story that the Government have kindly given us, then we print the …

Lords Debate 19 September 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

My Lords, sadly, over 1,500 people will die in the UK today. Of those, nearly 500 will be from cancer. Death comes to us all, and of course we want to make sure that people have as comfortable a death as possible. But in the legislation before us, we are being asked to agree that someone be enabled …

Lords Debate 21 July 2025

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

My Lords, my grandchildren refer to the Parliament building from outside as “Grandpa’s office”. This is a moment in which we have lit a fuse; a fuse which will ultimately change irrevocably the nature of the House of Lords and, more importantly, and perhaps for those at the other end to consider, t…

Lords Debate 9 July 2025

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

Can I ask the noble Baroness something? The most important reform that ever took place in the House of Lords was caused by the threat of the Liberal Government to create hundreds of Peers. They had that right and they knew that they had that right, and the King agreed that they had that right. Had t…

Lords Debate 2 July 2025

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

My Lords, I put my name to the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Roberts, and I did so because although it seems like a small point, it is part of a bigger point. I am afraid the noble Lord, Lord Cromwell, is mistaken in thinking that the Lord Great Chamberlain is here because of his ce…

Lords Debate 11 June 2025

Holocaust Memorial Bill

My Lords, I warmly endorse the amendment and the speeches by the noble Baroness, Lady Blackstone, and the right reverend Prelate. I briefly invite your Lordships to make a comparison in order to understand how we might look at this issue. It is a comparison we can make with our own eyes when we trav…