"My Lords, I want to ask this question of the noble Baroness, Lady Hollins, but it applies also to the noble Baroness, Lady Berridge: she mentioned various things that are cited as causing pressure, but does she not agree that being in palliative care also causes pressure?..." Lord Winston - View Speech
"I do not wish to extend this conversation but, given what the noble Baroness has said, can she explain why in Australia—I am sorry, in New Zealand—where there is very good palliative care, three-quarters of the people requesting assisted dying, something like 2,000 patients, had been in palliative care at …..." Lord Winston - View Speech
"Before my noble and learned friend sits down, will she just recall some evidence that we took in the committee that we sat on together only a week or two ago? My noble and learned friend was very keen to have evidence from New Zealand, where they had a three-year …..." Lord Winston - View Speech
"Before the noble Lord sits down, perhaps he could just clarify a point. Medical royal colleges are often quoted as having a view, but they are very seldom unanimous. I wonder whether he could tell us not just the percentage of psychiatrists but how many psychiatrists who are members of …..." Lord Winston - View Speech
"My Lords, as a member of the Select Committee that the noble Baroness has just referred to, I think she ought to refrain from criticising something that the committee either said or thought. We merely took evidence. As we will see in the report, we did not make those observations …..." Lord Winston - View Speech
"To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to screen the genomes of newborn infants for different genetic conditions...." Lord Winston - View Speech
"My Lords, the causes of obesity are many, not just one or two issues. Has my noble friend the Minister considered whether some sort of pilot programme looking at particular types of obesity might be sensible, just as the questioner has, in effect, already asked? I agree that the long-term …..." Lord Winston - View Speech
"My Lords, I promise not to give as long a speech as my noble friend Lord Grocott. I am speaking on this Bill for the first time, deliberately, having not voted. I think I am the only person in the House who is a card-carrying geneticist. I have been through …..." Lord Winston - View Speech
"My Lords, an experiment in Oxford some 50 or 60 years ago showed that a newborn baby cat, if blindfolded for more than about six to eight weeks, would remain permanently visually impaired thereafter. We know that the infant brain is developing faster in those first two years than at …..." Lord Winston - View Speech