Biography
Lord Moylan has engaged extensively on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill through 39 debate speeches, raising concerns about prognosis requirements, funding mechanisms, and the scope of the assisted dying commissioner's powers. Drawing on his personal experience with stage 4 oesophageal cancer diagnosed in August 2023, he has contributed substantively to technical and philosophical discussions about how the legislation defines and applies key concepts such as terminal illness prognosis and mental capacity. His contributions reflect concerns about potential regulatory creep and the use of public funding for assisted dying services, with particular focus on health inequalities arguments.
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“…My noble friend Lord Young of Cookham is suggesting that, at the stroke of some scribal pen in the Office for National Statistics, at least the financial consequences, if not the legal consequences, of nationalising the roscos would land on the Government’s plate as a result of the Bill—in other words, as a result of e…”
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care80th of 56818.0
- Mental health281st of 88014.0
- Learning disability & autism296th of 89914.0
- Assisted dying58th of 37114.0
- Public health & prevention125th of 68812.0
- Cancer126th of 62212.0
- Heart disease & stroke150th of 3984.0
- Health inequalities245th of 2882.0
- Elderly care & frailty166th of 2362.0
- Dementia211th of 2512.0
What they’ve said
“My Lords, I am beginning to feel slightly left out. I have not been the beneficiary of a large amount of correspondence from the Minister in the way other noble Lords scattered around the Chamber appear to have been.”
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · 2026-03-26 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…addington, that the language of combat and struggle is really not appropriate for people who are suffering from cancer. I never use it myself and, although I quoted Professor Gould using it in my speech, it is not the natural language that I would propose.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, I am not saying—nor was anybody—that a positive attitude on its own is going to save somebody from cancer. Professor Gould also benefited from the fact that he had the best medical treatment, and he went on various experimental courses. That was not my point at all.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…cussed prognosis briefly in previous debates, but I wanted to raise this in the context of my own experience of cancer and to bring some sort of mathematical thinking to bear on the question. In August 2023, I was diagnosed with stage 4 oesophageal cancer.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…If you have had stage 4 cancer, they will not use the word “cured”, but I am as close to cured as you can be, and I am in complete metabolic remission. I still have 18 years to go on the bargain I struck with my oncologist.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
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