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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 5 December 2025

Debate

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Contribution

The noble and learned Lord has tabled a series of amendments. I put it to him that a lot of these amendments go further than just drafting. When I asked the question in Committee recently, the Government refused to say, or to make it easy to identify, which amendments they have been involved in and helped with. The suggestion was, basically, “Go and read Hansard”. Well, I have read Hansard. There are amendments here, where, in a variety of places, something has been done to amendments that were tabled by Kim Leadbeater that, all of a sudden, have now been watered down. One of them is about the words “through illness”. I do not know why, all of a sudden, we are seeing an amendment that was specifically put in now being removed.

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