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Baroness Scotland of Asthal (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 14 November 2025

Debate

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Contribution

The difficulty we had was of course with time. We did not take a lot of evidence. The Committee will know that there was a request that we should take written evidence. It would have been possible for us to take written evidence from a number of jurisdictions, which could then have formed a body of evidence that could have been looked at. The decision was made by the committee that we should not take written evidence—so I think the committee was constrained in terms of what it could do and the timing. The committee tried to do its best. I hope that this House will not deny itself the opportunity of looking at evidence from other jurisdictions; we will all be able to talk about that in due course.

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