Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Debate between Baroness Finlay of Llandaff and Lord Wilson of Sedgefield

Committee stage
Friday 27th March 2026 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Watkins of Tavistock (CB)]

My Lords—

[Lord in Waiting/Government Whip (Lord Wilson of Sedgefield) (Lab)]

I ask the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, when she is intervening, to keep it short, and people cannot intervene on people who are intervening.

[Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB)]

Noble Lords are repeatedly intervening on the different points.

As for the numbers, the estimates, based on the evidence from other countries, suggest that the estimates in the impact assessment are very low, and that the demand for assisted suicide would be much higher, so it would come into the purview of a large number of clinicians; hence the need for specialisation.