Biography
Baroness Berger has engaged extensively on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill through 33 debate speeches, raising substantive concerns about safeguards, medical professional consensus, mental capacity frameworks, and the interaction between assisted dying and existing NHS services. Her contributions have consistently focused on strengthening protections for vulnerable groups, including people with learning disabilities, and ensuring a causal link between terminal illness and requests for assisted dying. She has also raised concerns about palliative care access and the impact of social media on children's wellbeing.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…by the new untrialled process, involving non-judicial panels overseen by a new, tsar-like figure, the voluntary assisted dying commissioner. This seismic change was made without any input from the 627 Members of the other place who were not on the Bill Committee.”
Record by topic
- Mental health99th of 88038.0
- Assisted dying41st of 37122.0
- Palliative & end of life care64th of 56822.0
- Learning disability & autism466th of 8996.0
- Public health & prevention373rd of 6884.0
- Heart disease & stroke324th of 3982.0
- NHS waiting lists467th of 5342.0
- Dementia211th of 2512.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing236th of 3022.0
- Maternity & neonatal363rd of 4382.0
What they’ve said
“…Nursing, and from GPs and medical examiners—organisations and groups that are neutral on the principle of assisted dying but have legitimate and significant concerns about the efficacy, workability and safety of the Bill. I was seeking to make an intervention earlier on my noble friend Lady Andrews.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-04-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I think—of the royal medical colleges take a neutral position on the principle of assisted dying, there is not a single medical royal college in this country that will attest to the safety of the Bill.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-04-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…uniform of the doctor who is having that conversation could suggest a position of authority that someone with a learning disability should show acquiescence to. I thought that was something for us to consider in the light of all these important amendments.…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…They all seek to strengthen the effectiveness of the voluntary assisted dying panels as a safeguard, because that is what we have been told they have been put forward to provide.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-02-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…This amendment would therefore disapply Section 3(3) of the Mental Capacity Act for the purposes of assisted dying alone, recognising that the bar for deciding to die must be higher than for any other decision.…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-02-06 · Read on Hansard ↗
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