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Debate on select committee report on Monday, 10 October 2005, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Mackay of Clashfern. The answering member was Lord Warner.

Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill: Select Committee Report

Lords debate on motion to take note of the Report of the Select Committee on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill. (HL 86 2004/05). Agreed to on question. (Part 2 of 2).

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
674 c45-150 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department of Health
Select Committee on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill (HL)
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Taverne | 674 c48-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I too may say what a pleasure it was to serve on the committee chaired by the nobl...
Earl of Arran | 674 c46-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, express my appreciation for the manner in which my noble and learned friend Lord M...
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Baroness David | 674 c45-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, and his committee on ...
Lord Patel | 674 c50-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, for his outstanding ch...
Baroness Tonge | 674 c83 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I became a supporter of assisted dying for the terminally ill after 30 years of medical pr...
Lord McColl of Dulwich | 674 c83-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may point out that we do not cut for stone. It is done with a machine that smas...
Baroness Masham of Ilton | 674 c82-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this mammoth debate shows the interest that there is in this very complex matter. It is ob...
Baroness Flather | 674 c82 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was trying to show that we are not in the same situation as the Netherlands—it is comple...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 674 c78-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join other noble Lords in congratulating the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay, and hi...
Lord Puttnam | 674 c77-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, a couple of weeks ago a close friend of mine, a former Member of your Lordships’ House, di...
Lord Cavendish of Furness | 674 c82 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before my noble friend sits down, and for the purpose of clarity, will she confirm whether...
Baroness Flather | 674 c80-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in spite of the dismissive way in which my noble friend Lady Knight spoke of dogs, cats an...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 674 c88-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when we last debated the issue of euthanasia and assisted suicide I set out my own reasons...
Lord Desai | 674 c88 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the efforts of the noble Lord, Lord Joffe, to make death human. I supported him ...
Lord Tombs | 674 c86-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I first join others in congratulating the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern...
Baroness Tonge | 674 c86 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is very important that bishops and priests continue to express their views on these iss...
Baroness Tonge | 674 c84-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend for clarifying his position, but I urge him to think very carefull...
Lord Carlile of Berriew | 674 c84 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I cannot allow my noble friend to get away with that. She has grossly misrepresented what ...
Baroness Tonge | 674 c84 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to address common concerns expressed in letters that I have received from all over ...
Baroness Tonge | 674 c84 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am well aware of that, but we went through the stage of cutting for stones. Indeed, many...
Bishop of Oxford | 674 c58 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall just note that point and ponder on it.
Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen | 674 c58-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, and his committ...
Lord Gilmour of Craigmillar | 674 c60-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have heard strong speeches on both sides. I shall look briefly at the arguments against...
Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 674 c62-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the committee for the wonderful report that it has produced, and the noble and lea...
Baroness Hayman | 674 c52-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, many noble Lords have spoken of the quality of the chairmanship of the noble and learned L...
Lord Carlile of Berriew | 674 c55-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, join in the applause for the chairman of the committee, the noble and learned Lord...
Baroness Cumberlege | 674 c53-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in the past, medicine was simple, relatively ineffective and safe. Today it is very compli...
Lord McColl of Dulwich | 674 c58 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the right reverend Prelate sits down, does he agree that if, under those conditions...
Bishop of Oxford | 674 c57-8 (Link to this contribution) I very much respect the serious intentions of the noble Lord, Lord Joffe, and the care that he has t...
Viscount Craigavon | 674 c75-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I strongly support this prospective Bill and warmly congratulate the noble and learned Lor...
Lord Walton of Detchant | 674 c72-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I echo the congratulations expressed from all sides of the House to the noble and learned ...
Baroness Knight of Collingtree | 674 c73-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, begin with a tribute to the Select Committee, which did a difficult job extremely ...
Earl Ferrers | 674 c65-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a sensitive subject that combines compassion and understanding with the basics of ...
Baroness Morgan of Huyton | 674 c64-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when people ask what the point of the House of Lords is, we should point to this debate an...
Baroness Wilkins | 674 c70-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I spoke in opposition to the assisted dying Bill that the noble Lord, Lord Joffe, introduc...
Baroness Greengross | 674 c69-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I add my congratulations to the committee for the wonderful and thoughtful work that it ha...
Lord Beaumont of Whitley | 674 c68-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am, as most of your Lordships will know, a priest of the Church of England and, I hope, ...
Baroness Warnock | 674 c67-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it has become abundantly clear from all that has been written spoken on the subject of tod...
Baroness O'Cathain | 674 c91-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, even at the position of speaker number 39, I feel compelled to join everyone else in congr...
Lord Carey of Clifton | 674 c93-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, debates in your Lordships’ House are usually important, but that on the report of the Sele...
Lord Layard | 674 c95-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have all had many letters on the subject, and the most interesting one that I had direc...
Lord Maginnis of Drumglass | 674 c96-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join those who have acknowledged the work done by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Macka...
Baroness Noakes | 674 c98 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are not much beyond halfway down our speakers list. Noble Lords might therefore be glad...
Lord Chartres | 674 c98-100 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, listening to that speech and so many of the speeches in your Lordships’ House this evening...
Lord Plant of Highfield | 674 c101-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Joffe, in his endeavours on the Bill and I shall certainly ...
Baroness Chapman | 674 c102-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have read the report we are now discussing. There are several issues that I could talk a...
Lord Cavendish of Furness | 674 c104-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have listened to many outstanding contributions this afternoon and the last one, by the ...
Earl of Glasgow | 674 c106-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as a latecomer to this continuing debate on the question of whether in certain circumstanc...
Baroness Murphy | 674 c108-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we must all be brief today. I want to do no more than indicate my support for the introduc...
Lord Brennan | 674 c110-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this debate should not be afflicted either by religious extremism towards the secular thin...
Lord Lucas | 674 c114-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was very happy to discover that the noble Baroness, Lady Murphy, has covered a lot of wh...
Baroness Emerton | 674 c115-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, pay tribute to the committee so ably chaired by the noble and learned Lord, Lord M...
Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank | 674 c117-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I belonged for 44 years to one of the professions that see death at first hand more often ...
Lord Turnberg | 674 c119-21 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there were of course, as we have heard, very strongly held views on both sides of the argu...
Lord Elton | 674 c121-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in a debate in which allegations of religious prejudice have been flying around, I should ...
Lord Warner | 674 c122 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, I make clear that I think this is a serious subject and I...
Lord Lewis of Newnham | 674 c122-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, much of what I wanted to say tonight has already been said far more eloquently than I coul...
Lord Northbourne | 674 c130-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I had not intended to speak in the debate, but when I read the excellent report produced b...
Lord Hylton | 674 c131 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the debate has ebbed and flowed. I rise as a layman, who will die one day, to help voice t...
Lord May of Oxford | 674 c128 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have not seen the report, but I should like to look at it after the debate.
Lord Griffiths of Burry Port | 674 c128-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the hour is late, and I am number 64 in the batting order. We have heard legal, moral, med...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 674 c128 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before my noble friend sits down, would he address the point he made about the number of a...
Lord Clement-Jones | 674 c124-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like many noble Lords I took part in the last debate we had on this subject in June 2003. ...
Baroness Young of Old Scone | 674 c126-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is quite late and I thought that I might just stand up to say that I support the Bill t...
Lord Lipsey | 674 c131-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my first-ever public speech, in the Oxford Union nearly 40 years ago, was in support of eu...
Lord Habgood | 674 c134-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in view of some of the fears that have been expressed I promise not to offer your Lordship...
Lord McColl of Dulwich | 674 c141-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I too pay tribute to the skill of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, wh...
Lord Warner | 674 c144-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, for introducing thi...
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 674 c148-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have certainly had a full debate, punctured only by a Statement of no doubt considerabl...
Lord Haskel | 674 c135-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the topic of assisted dying provokes the whole range of human responses—ethical, personal,...
Lord Moser | 674 c136-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have had a remarkable debate, and for that all of us are grateful to the noble Lord, Lo...
Baroness Howells of St Davids | 674 c137-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, add my congratulations to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay, for his balance...
Baroness Neuberger | 674 c139-41 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is impossible to make a proper winding-up speech after such a long debate with such exc...
Bishop of Winchester | 674 c86 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the noble Baroness sits down, is it her view—as it appears to be the view of others...
Lord Ackner | 674 c63-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join in the congratulations so elegantly expressed by the noble Lord, Lord Phillips of S...
Lord Neill of Bladen | 674 c111-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin with an apology. Regrettably, I had duties to perform in a court of law and could ...
Lord Sheldon | 674 c116-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I also express my great appreciation for the report and the detailed and voluminous eviden...
Lord May of Oxford | 674 c127-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wish to express my appreciation for the Select Committee’s report and also to explain wh...
Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff | 674 c133-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wish to speak very briefly about the contribution made by nursing and midwifery, because...
Subjects
Consent to medical treatment Depressive illnesses Chronic illnesses Diagnosis Doctors Ethics Euthanasia Medical treatments Older people Mental capacity Public opinion Palliative care Prescriptions Pain Suicide
Legislation
Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill (HL) 2004/05
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