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Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 20 March 2026

Debate

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Contribution

I am not sure that the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, got a complete answer to her very interesting question. I remind the Committee that she asked what the powers of the Welsh Ministers would be in this regard. Of course, the noble and learned Lord is obviously correct when he says that the Welsh Ministers could not say, for example, “If you have nine months to live, we are going to allow you to access the service”, because that would go beyond the scope of the Act and impinge on a criminal law issue, which is the purview of Westminster. What if they were to say, “We will only, as a matter of health service, allow you to access this if you have three months or less to live”? Would that be within their competence, with their health hat and not their criminal law hat on? I wonder whether that was the point behind the question asked by the noble Baroness, Lady Smith. I am not sure she got an answer to that point.

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