Biography
Lord Bellamy has engaged with end-of-life care through debate speeches, most notably contributing to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in September 2025, where he raised concerns about excessive delegated powers that would allow the Secretary of State to amend NHS legislation to permit assisted death without adequate parliamentary scrutiny. He also spoke on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill in September 2026, though his remarks on that occasion focused on broader accountability and cultural change rather than health-specific matters.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…itself has had very little effect: we have still seen a series of national health scandals, with the Nottingham maternity scandal being only one of a number of examples.”
Record by topic
- Assisted dying277th of 3712.0
- Maternity & neonatal363rd of 4382.0
- Palliative & end of life care452nd of 5682.0
What they’ve said
“…regimes are based either on intolerable suffering, such as in Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands et cetera, or on terminal illness, such as in some US states, Australia and New Zealand.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2025-09-19 · Read on Hansard ↗
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