"Perhaps the noble and learned Lord will clarify the answer he gave on Scotland. I think he is saying that even though the Scottish Parliament has decided that assisted dying should not be lawful in Scotland, a Scottish hospice could nevertheless not prevent its employees doing something that would be …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"Most of the amendments in this group relate to Wales, but some of them also relate to Scotland. Notwithstanding the noble Lord’s sensation of Groundhog Day, there has been an important development since we met last Friday, which is that the Scottish Parliament, by a decisive majority of 69 to …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"The noble Baroness brings me neatly on to the second point I was going to make, which is that the lack of safeguards in Scotland precisely demonstrates the constitutional and practical difficulty of trying to legislate in Scotland while a number of those key safeguards are reserved matters to Westminster. …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"Is the noble and learned Lord suggesting that Scottish health professionals will be travelling south to undertake assisted dying? Is it a sort of Berwick-upon-Tweed provision?..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"It is not so much a matter of prejudice because, as I understand it, this provision was inserted in the House of Commons in the anticipation that the Scottish Parliament was going to have before it a Bill on assisted suicide, which it would at that point have passed. This …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"I would be interested to come back to that on Report when we have had a chance to investigate that point further.
Fundamentally, this shows that there is a great problem, a structural problem, in trying to do these types of big social changes through Private Members’ Bills, be they …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"On the thrust of the argument, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, that approaching this probabilistically, rather than with a single number, clearly makes sense. It is wonderful to hear the impact that these new immunotherapies have had in his own personal case as well as for oesophageal …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"My Lords, I will speak briefly to two amendments in this group, the first being Amendment 334. In particular, I hope to draw the attention of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, the sponsor of the Bill, to subsection (6)(m) of the proposed new clause and ask him whether …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"Even if the noble and learned Lord does not adopt the scheme put forward by the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, would he nevertheless accept that, for the co-ordinating doctors, it would be valuable to ascertain the information contained in proposed new paragraph (m) in this amendment? We would therefore be …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech