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Baroness O’Loan (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 23 January 2026

Debate

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Contribution

I want to be really clear about this, because it is so fundamental and so important. The noble and learned Lord just described Clause 12(2)(c). Sub-paragraphs (i) to (iii) are not relevant to this discussion, but sub-paragraph (iv) and paragraph (d) are. They require three pieces of information in order to enable an informed wish: “the nature of the substance … how it will bring about death and how it will be administered”, and the person’s “wishes in the event of complications”. It does not require communication of what the complications might be. I simply ask him: why will he not put in the Bill a requirement to explain the complications?

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