Biography
Baroness Hayman has engaged primarily through debate speeches on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, drawing on her experience as a member of a 2004 Select Committee investigating assisted dying legislation. Her contributions emphasise the importance of doctors having holistic conversations with dying patients about all care options, and she has expressed concern about over-bureaucratic and privacy-invasive processes in the Bill's proposed procedures. She has also briefly contributed to discussions on pension schemes and energy policy.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Twenty years ago, I was a member of the Select Committee on Joel Joffe’s assisted dying Bill. That experience, the visits that we made and the evidence that we heard, convinced me that it was possible to frame legislation that safeguarded against coercion and did not compromise but rather complemented palliative care.”
Record by topic
- Assisted dying109th of 3718.0
- Palliative & end of life care198th of 5688.0
- Cancer503rd of 6222.0
- GP access205th of 2412.0
- Learning disability & autism756th of 8992.0
- Public health & prevention573rd of 6882.0
What they’ve said
“…The doctor should be able to talk freely about all those options. In my view of the world, that would include assisted dying, but there is a spectrum.…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The noble Baroness, Lady Lawlor, spoke as if there was a very binary division between assisted dying care and palliative care. Yet the cases that I have been involved with and seen very closely have been of people very definitely frail and at the end of their lives, and where the range of options they wanted to talk ab…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Just like palliative care, bereavement services are very patchy—all over the place—and vary tremendously. Why should this category of parental loss be subject to the obligation of the state to provide bereavement services, as against every other sort of parental loss?…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-02-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I am trying to say is that her desire for her life to end, and the method that she took to do that, was not assisted dying. That was not available to her and it did not come into the equation.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-02-06 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I suspect that there is widespread support in the Committee that face-to-face consultations should, in general practice and in the norm, be what happens in these circumstances. We get into great difficulty when we micro-legislate to cover every single circumstance that might occur.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-01-30 · Read on Hansard ↗
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