"I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Harper and Lord Empey, for signing this amendment. I will also speak to my Amendment 65 and consider an amendment put forward by the shadow Front Bench.
"May I see whether the noble and learned Lord can give me an answer on the idea of having the principles in the GMC guidance? They have come in only as a result of the Montgomery ruling in the court...." Baroness Coffey - View Speech
"I was cutting across, perhaps. I think the noble and learned Lord recognised my concern, in Amendment 188A, that I wanted stuff that is in case law now to be firmly included in the Bill, because, as I pointed out to the Committee in response to somebody else, the GMC …..." Baroness Coffey - View Speech
"I understand where my noble friend is going with that. I intend to come back to some aspects of this when we get into informed consent because I was somewhat struck by what the noble Lord, Lord Winston, said, about declining to give treatment because he wanted people to, in …..." Baroness Coffey - View Speech
"The points that the two other noble Lords have made are due to guidance in 2020 which was put in place only as a consequence of the 2015 ruling by the Supreme Court which we discussed earlier. The guidance before 2020 was not what is being said now, and that …..." Baroness Coffey - View Speech
"My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 287A, 287B and 771ZB. I call the noble Lord, Lord Birt, my noble friend. We went to the same school, although admittedly not at the same time. I am conscious that he has come at this with an approach of a lot of …..." Baroness Coffey - View Speech
"On the point the noble Baroness made about funding, unfortunately the Minister has now communicated that it will not happen until autumn 2026, which any former Minister knows means 24 December...." Baroness Coffey - View Speech
"My Lords, I tabled Amendment 43, to which Amendments 312 and 340 are consequential, and Amendment 188A, so I will speak to those. Amendment 43 would bring in the term “demonstrably”. I appreciate that noble Lords may think that this is dancing on the head of a pin, but it …..." Baroness Coffey - View Speech
"This group of amendments is quite interesting in starting to sketch out what is important in the value-for-money approach that is being adopted through the Bill. I did not know when the noble Lord, Lord Palmer of Childs Hill, would speak to Amendment 49 and I will be interested to …..." Baroness Coffey - View Speech