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Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 12 December 2025

Debate

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Contribution

Does the noble Baroness accept—because she has been quoting some of the evidence given to the Select Committee of which I was a member—that the committee was not able to hear either from people who were dying or indeed from the families who had been through what she is talking about? That was absent; we lost that. On the particular point she raises about the first time a family may know about it, might she also reflect that the evidence was that most families try to discourage somebody from taking their own life rather than the other way round?

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