Biography
Baroness Lawlor has engaged extensively on assisted dying through 30 debate speeches, predominantly during scrutiny of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, raising detailed concerns about medical professional involvement, capacity assessment safeguards in care homes, palliative care access, and the reliability of six-month prognosis predictions. Her contributions have focused on procedural protections, including arguments for in-person assessments, neutral adviser provisions, and heightened mental capacity requirements. She has also tabled amendments addressing potential conflicts of interest, financial coercion, and professional training obligations related to assisted dying.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“My Lords, it is always a challenge to follow a bishop, and the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Manchester is no exception. The Prime Minister says that a central aim of the new legislative programme is to strengthen security, the economy, energy and defence.”
Record by topic
- Assisted dying24th of 37138.0
- Palliative & end of life care56th of 56826.0
- Learning disability & autism369th of 89910.0
- Mental health369th of 88010.0
- Heart disease & stroke75th of 3986.0
- Cancer332nd of 6224.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing236th of 3022.0
- Unpaid carers243rd of 2832.0
- Dementia211th of 2512.0
What they’ve said
“…nt management”: how, for instance, to deal with a patient who insists, contrary to the evidence, that they have cancer? However, there is a second, higher level—an induction into the ethos of the profession. This level is of vital importance in training medical professionals, because they are dealing with human beings.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…What then is at the heart of the Bill, if I may develop the point a bit, is a process for managing assisted suicide in consequence of something which is not at all certain.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…ted if the general practitioner, the medical practitioner in the Bill, does not feel willing or able to discuss assisted dying with them. The amendments would ensure that the information was provided by someone neutral.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…s not necessarily have to be a doctor to whom the person is referred—who are in the vanguard of protagonists of assisted dying? This is the concern that that seeks to deal with in a state service.…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…as no chain of custody for the secure storage of these lethal drugs, even though some that we know are used for assisted dying, such as benzodiazepine, have a black-market use. The measures in these three amendments go some way to addressing this problem of secure storage.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
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