Question for short debate on Monday, 13 February 2012, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Jay of Paddington. The answering member was Lord Wallace of Tankerness.

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Lords question for short debate on how they assess the application of the Director of Public Prosecutions's Policy for Prosecutors in Respect of Cases of Encouraging or Assisting Suicide.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 735 c621-36
Session: 2010-12
Department: Attorney General
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions: Bishop of Lichfield | 735 c625 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the current guidelines on assisted suicide act to protect vulnerable people and to deter o...; Baroness Hollins | 735 c624-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I express an interest as a past president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, which iss...; Earl of Glasgow | 735 c624 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, death, as we all know, comes to all of us, so there is no point in being frightened of it....; Lord Ribeiro | 735 c623-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for bringing this very important debate to the House. I declare...; Baroness Jay of Paddington | 735 c621-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to ask the Government this important and timely Question...; Baroness Jay of Paddington | 735 c621 (Link to this contribution) Asked by To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they assess the application of the Director of Public...; Baroness Emerton | 735 c625 (Link to this contribution) The prosecution guidelines make it clear that there does not need to be a change in the law in any w...; Baroness Morris of Bolton | 735 c625 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like other noble Lords who have spoken, I believe that the law we have on assisted suicide...; Lord Browne of Belmont | 735 c627 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, assisting someone to commit suicide is a criminal offence, and rightly so. At present, if ...; Lord Turnbull | 735 c626-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, despite the advances made by the DPP’s guidance, the new status quo still leaves the dying...; Lord Maginnis of Drumglass | 735 c626 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, suicide was decriminalised 50 years ago, but not because it was regarded as something to b...; Lord Butler of Brockwell | 735 c626 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the number of speakers in this debate shows that the appetite for debating this issue in y...; Lord Joffe | 735 c625-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, because the Director of Public Prosecutions can only interpret but not change the law, the...; Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 735 c629 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, some of your Lordships have argued that the prosecution policy on assisted suicide should ...; Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 735 c628-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, suicide—thankfully—is legal, but many people need help and support to ensure that it is bo...; Baroness Hayman | 735 c628 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not believe that changing the law in this area needs to frighten us in the sense of t...; Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne | 735 c628 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, all of us here have the deepest sympathy for individuals who are in the last stages of the...; Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 735 c632-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Jay of Paddington, on introducing this debate, and...; Lord Bach | 735 c633 (Link to this contribution) It was not this issue.; Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 735 c633-6 (Link to this contribution) It was not quite this issue but it was related. There was also a debate in Grand Committee in Februa...; Lord Swinfen | 735 c631 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the DPP on the way in which he has produced what in my view is a very compa...; Lord Warner | 735 c631 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in the Purdy judgment the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, said that there had been two ...; Lord Harries of Pentregarth | 735 c630 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness, Lady Jay, referred to the recent commission, which found the present legal statu...; Viscount Craigavon | 735 c630-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I speak very much in favour of this policy of the DPP and the clarification provided by th...; Baroness Berridge | 735 c629-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I find tonight's Question troubling as its precursor is: should the Government be assessin...; Lord Turnberg | 735 c630 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should express my interest as a past president of the Royal College of Physicians. The q...; Baroness Young of Old Scone | 735 c629 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jay, for giving us this opportunity tonight. I served on ...; Lord Bach | 735 c632 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Jay on securing this debate. She has supported a polic...; Lord Pannick | 735 c631-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the DPP has done a good job. His policy promotes the three main objectives which the Law L...; Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 735 c632 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was a member of the Select Committee that looked at the assisted dying Bill. I co-chair ...; Lord Patten | 735 c627 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for a quick background to my views, some, including me, sense that we are drifting more an...
Subjects: Crown Prosecution Service Doctors Euthanasia Immunity from prosecution Prosecutions Nurses
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