Member

The noble Baroness, Lady Coffey, talked about assessments taking place in the UK. The significance of these is that they then enable the regulatory regimes of the various professions to operate effectively. They enable proper consideration, and investigation where necessary, to enable recourse to civil law where necessary, so criminal law offences would apply to the actions in question. Also, the designation of the lethal drugs to be used to kill and the regulations governing their prescribing, dispensing, transporting, storage, handling, et cetera, are all subject to secondary legislation powers. We need controls in place within the jurisdiction before the system can operate safely. The duty to issue codes of practice relating to the operation and integrity of the Act—capacity assessment, coercion, et cetera—is again conferred on the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers. The process must operate in England and Wales.