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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 24 Nov 2025
Mental Health Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 19D in my name. I thank the Minister and her officials for the frequency of their engagement on the Bill. I put on record my apology for not spotting possible issues with the Government’s Motion, to which I have tabled the amendment, much …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 24 Nov 2025
Mental Health Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her clear intention to continue the dialogue on this, but I believe that we all would be assisted by officials from the Department for Education who hold responsibility for the Children Act and the various experts in the UK on this …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 24 Nov 2025
Mental Health Bill [HL]

"In Amendment 19B in lieu, as closing words after subsection (3)(c), insert—..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 21 Nov 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"I will just reply to the noble Baroness, then, that within the Bill that is not necessary. I have outlined Clause 10. This applies to the people who are verifying in the process, not to the individual. It was not in the Motion your Lordships’ House approved that that evidence …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 21 Nov 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 48, to which I have added my name, and to my Amendment 846. I added my name to Amendment 48 to explore whether pressure can emanate from a non-human and non-corporate source. As I mentioned at Second Reading, so much pressure nowadays, particularly …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 21 Nov 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"We covered that matter on the first day in Committee...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 21 Nov 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"It might help noble Lords to know that we are being followed on Twitter. This issue—I am aiming to save time—of the Pannick dilemma has been commented on by Philip Murray, who is a law lecturer at Robinson College in Cambridge. He said the following, and we may wish to …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 21 Nov 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"My Lords, my name is on the amendment that the noble and learned Lord has just mentioned. This was also from Second Reading. There are loads of people signing forms saying that coercion or pressure has not happened. What is the situation with the internet? What is the situation for …..."
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Written Question
Draft Mental Health Bill
Thursday 26th October 2023

Asked by: Baroness Berridge (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend to introduce a Mental Health Bill, as proposed by the then Prime Minister in May 2017.

Answered by Lord Markham - Shadow Minister (Science, Innovation and Technology)

It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 09 Nov 2022
Abuse and Deaths in Secure Mental Health Units

"My Lords, I am also serving on the Joint Committee mentioned by my noble friend. We received evidence that the highest rate of mortality for those held in custody between 2016 and 2019 was among those held under the Mental Health Act. If you die in a prison or an …..."
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