Biography
Lord Wolfson of Tredegar has engaged primarily through debate speeches on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, contributing substantively across multiple Committee and Report stages between September 2025 and March 2026, with particular focus on eligibility criteria, safeguards, and definitional questions. His interventions on assisted dying have been technical and procedural in nature, often responding to specific amendments and probing provisions around residency requirements and access conditions. Beyond end-of-life care, he has made isolated contributions on mental health in the context of imprisonment reform and broader parliamentary business.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“My Lord, I pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Alton of Liverpool, not only for introducing this Bill but for decades of tireless work exposing some of the gravest human rights abuses across the world.”
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care100th of 56816.0
- Assisted dying109th of 3718.0
- Mental health603rd of 8804.0
- Public health & prevention573rd of 6882.0
- Learning disability & autism756th of 8992.0
- Cancer503rd of 6222.0
- Heart disease & stroke324th of 3982.0
What they’ve said
“…Walls, guards and stab vests are the equivalent of palliative care. They are not a cure. We need to focus on the cure and, as we all know, the first step to any cure is correctly identifying the disease.…”
Antisemitic Attacks · 2026-04-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Bill has meant that noble Lords across the House, whether for or against the principle of assisted dying, have taken the scrutiny of the Bill very seriously, as they rightly should. I suggest that there is both a general and a specific reason for that.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-04-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…In reality, assisted dying will not be provided by the criminal justice system. In practice, it will be provided by the health service. That is why I listened carefully to what the noble Lord, Lord Stevens of Birmingham, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, said: in practice, this is a Bill which to…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…progressive illness or disease which cannot be reversed by treatment”, let us say—God forbid—one has pancreatic cancer, and it cannot be reversed by treatment. The second condition is that “the person’s death in consequence of that illness or disease can reasonably be expected within six months”.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-01-30 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I know that reports of incidents in other countries where people have used assisted dying services to end their lives for reasons other than terminal illness are concerning. Therefore, I understand the reasons why the various noble Lords have put forward the amendments in this group.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-01-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
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