Member

I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, for inviting me to a meeting on 3 September; I found it invaluable to meet doctors from Australia. In that meeting, the noble and learned Lord said that there had been significant support. I am interested in whether it is possible to expand on that. We need to understand how many civil servants are currently working on this. Who is running the Bill team? Is it the Ministry of Justice? That would lead us into different discussions. Is it the Department of Health? Last week I met someone who works in a government department. He told me that he is working full-time on the implementation of this Bill; I am not sure he meant to tell me that. Once this Bill passes, the question of how it works absolutely will be life and death.