Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab)

I am very willing to address these border issues, which are incredibly important. The noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, specifically raised them in the context of the Isle of Man patient who comes to, say, Liverpool for treatment. What will happen when Scotland and the Isle of Man have different laws on assisted dying? If, as this draft says, you have to be ordinarily resident in England and Wales to get the benefit of the exception to the Suicide Act, those who offer to help someone get back to the Isle of Man for an assisted death there would be committing a criminal offence because the person would not be ordinarily resident in England and Wales. The British Medical Association has a proposal that we amend the Bill to say that if you help somebody to go to another part of the country to have an assisted death in accordance with the laws there, that would not be a crime. To answer the point by the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, I have been in discussion with the BMA as to how one might introduce an amendment to that effect. We need to discuss that, and these cross-border issues definitely need to be discussed. I would very much welcome such a discussion taking place with interested parties.