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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 23 January 2026
Debate
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillContribution
On the broad principle, I take the view that an assisted death is well within the founding principles of the NHS. There is a separate legal question, which I do not think is really the question that the noble Lord, Lord Stevens, is raising, but it needs to be addressed: does that require some amendment to Section 1 of the NHS Act? That is a strict legal question; government lawyers have to answer that one.
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