"I declare my interest as an honorary officer in the Royal Naval Reserve and as chair of the Armed Forces Parliamentary Trust. At this stage of the debate, after such a wide-ranging and thoughtful set of contributions, I will make just three brief points.
"My Lords, I declare my interests as chair of King’s College London and as an honorary fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. At this stage of the debate, I will just draw out a few of the salient points that we have heard so far and pose one or two related …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"The firebombing of synagogues, the Golders Green stabbings, the Heaton Park murders—the whole country clearly needs to wake up to what is happening. The Government are right, finally, to proscribe the Iranian IRGC—which the head of MI5 says has been linked to over 20 deadly plots on our soil in …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"My Lords, I pile on to the congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Patel, on this fantastic session. Given the excellence of the contributions that we have already heard, I will just draw out a small number of things. I will try not to be duplicative of the brilliant contributions …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"I will be equivalently concise. It is important to connect Amendment 657, which specifies that assisted dying
“is not to be regarded as medical treatment”,
with our debate on the broader conscience protections that the Bill needs to include. The reason is not just that regarding assisted dying as a …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"I thank the noble and learned Lord for giving away. One answer would be to simply put in the Bill that this is not a treatment, in which case all the other consequences would not arise. The question, just to clarify, is: is he saying that assisted dying is deemed …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"To clarify, I think Clause 31(8)(b) prevents a hospice as an employer restricting its employees from participating in assisted dying if they do it somewhere else. Is the noble and learned Lord saying that he is willing to change that?..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"I think the noble and learned Lord has just made a very important point. To clarify: he is saying that Clause 31(8)(b) would not apply in hospices; in other words, as drafted, the Bill would prevent a hospice as an employer from restricting doctors who were working for that hospice …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"I think what follows from that is that the noble and learned Lord is accepting the position that hospices will not be in a position to restrict their employees from participating in assisted dying, if they are doing that somewhere other than in the hospice...." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech