Biography
Lord Carlile has engaged extensively on end-of-life and assisted dying matters through 26 debate speeches, with particular focus on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill where he advocated for specialist palliative care knowledge in decision-making and raised concerns about informed consent procedures. His contributions across the nine health topics have emphasised factual, evidence-based approaches to complex issues including mental health in children appearing before criminal courts and the importance of professional expertise in medical decisions. He has demonstrated sustained parliamentary engagement on these matters through detailed technical scrutiny and substantive interventions during the legislative process.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…appeared recently at an inquest in south Wales concerning a death that resulted from misbehaviour in the local mental health service. The internal inquiry was a disgrace. There were concealments of documents. People did not come forward to say what had happened. There had to be an inquest.”
Record by topic
- Mental health233rd of 88016.0
- Palliative & end of life care120th of 56814.0
- Assisted dying58th of 37114.0
- Learning disability & autism369th of 89910.0
- Heart disease & stroke150th of 3984.0
- Unpaid carers243rd of 2832.0
- Children's health131st of 1572.0
- Dementia211th of 2512.0
- Elderly care & frailty166th of 2362.0
What they’ve said
“…rts display evidence of serious educational needs and an alarming number of those children show signs of florid psychiatric illness. In the sunshine of very welcome reform, can the Minister assure us that we will not lose sight of the great clouds presented by those issues?…”
Children’s Social Care: Enduring Relationships Strategy · 2026-06-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Bill when it started its course in the House of Commons: that the ultimate governance of the process of assisted dying should be with the courts rather than the largely unaccountable panels set up under an untested system introduced by amendments in the House of Commons.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-04-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…When you face the choice of having fewer than six months to live or dying by assisted dying, and you want to make your decision, you want to go to someone who has exactly the same sort of disciplinary approach as that eye specialist who would be advising you on your incipient cataract. That is a specialism.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…a specialist, and that specialist must be able to tell the patient their options for continuing with life: what palliative care is available and what caring systems, if they are unable to do certain things.…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…It is a very simple point: do I want someone knowledgeable to explain what palliative care is, or is not, available to me, or do I want it explained by a generalist, who may be extremely good, such as the noble Baroness, Lady Gerada, or rather less good? I used to be a lay member of the General Medical Council, and I h…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
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