Biography
Lord Stevens of Birmingham has engaged extensively with the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill through 40 debate speeches, with a particular focus on safeguards, conscience protections for healthcare professionals, and the role of palliative care in end-of-life provision. His contributions have consistently probed technical and constitutional aspects of the legislation, including questions about hospice employer restrictions, cross-border implications for Scotland and Wales, and the treatment status of assisted dying. Beyond this signature issue, the member has raised questions across a broad health portfolio including cancer outcomes, armed forces healthcare, and public health matters.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…It provides specialist mental health services for veterans. It has been great to see its progress since then. The Bill is now expanding beyond health, education and housing to bring in scope a wider range of public services for the Armed Forces covenant. I will just raise two questions for the Minister on Clause 2.”
Record by topic
- Assisted dying28th of 37130.0
- Mental health115th of 88030.0
- Palliative & end of life care57th of 56824.0
- Cancer76th of 62218.0
- Learning disability & autism441st of 8998.0
- Adult social care & reform99th of 3766.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing61st of 3026.0
- Public health & prevention373rd of 6884.0
- Maternity & neonatal363rd of 4382.0
- NHS waiting lists467th of 5342.0
- Health inequalities245th of 2882.0
What they’ve said
“…I declare my interests as chair of Cancer Research UK and chair of King’s College London’s council. Cancer Research UK has a proud tradition of supporting research in the UK as well as internationally. Some eight out of 10 medicines that NHS cancer patients use were either developed by or with Cancer Research UK.”
Cancer Outcomes in the UK · 2026-04-21 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I think what follows from that is that the noble and learned Lord is accepting the position that hospices will not be in a position to restrict their employees from participating in assisted dying, if they are doing that somewhere other than in the hospice.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…To clarify: he is saying that Clause 31(8)(b) would not apply in hospices; in other words, as drafted, the Bill would prevent a hospice as an employer from restricting doctors who were working for that hospice from also participating in assisted dying.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I will be equivalently concise. It is important to connect Amendment 657, which specifies that assisted dying “is not to be regarded as medical treatment”, with our debate on the broader conscience protections that the Bill needs to include.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The question, just to clarify, is: is he saying that assisted dying is deemed to be a treatment? Nevertheless, his Bill overrides the duties on a doctor affirmed by the Supreme Court in July 2023 in the McCulloch case.…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
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