"I am grateful to the noble Baroness. I said they were in favour of an opt-in system; I did not say they had called for a register. I want a register and I support the amendments that say we should have one. As the noble Lord, Lord Moore, said, it …..." Lord Harper - View Speech
"I am sorry to interrupt the Minister, but I am grateful that she has allowed me to do so. I want to make sure that I understand correctly what she has just said. I think she just said that, at the moment, the NHS would not be able to deliver …..." Lord Harper - View Speech
"I absolutely accept, as my noble friend Lady Coffey said, that the Minister does not have the policy responsibility, so I am absolutely not going to press her for an answer now. However, it would be helpful if we were to get a written response from the policy Minister that …..." Lord Harper - View Speech
"Given that I had raised the concern and the noble and learned Lord took care and trouble in responding to it, I listened very carefully to what he said. The problem is that what he said about no one being forced to participate in the steps set out in Clause …..." Lord Harper - View Speech
"My Lords, I want to cover a couple of points and reflect on what the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Scotland, said, which was that, despite the debate, there is a sense that people are agreed that this should be an opt-in rather than an opt-out process. The problem is …..." Lord Harper - View Speech
"The noble Baroness said that she does not want a publicly available register. Does she think that the patients of a general practitioner have the right to know whether that general practitioner is willing to provide assisted suicide services?..." Lord Harper - View Speech
"This will be my last intervention, I promise. I just want to press the noble and learned Lord on this issue. In the exchange we had earlier, he confirmed that in Clause 31 the right to not participate is “in the provision of assistance”. I was unclear about the definition …..." Lord Harper - View Speech
"The noble Baroness said that it was not in favour of a public register, and I did not say that it was, but that is a helpful clarification that the Committee has now been able to hear.
"The problem is that I do not think it is that clear, and it is not just me. If it were that clear, then the royal colleges that think that it should be made clearer would not think that. The problem is—..." Lord Harper - View Speech