Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 12 Dec 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
"My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for this thoughtful and considered debate. As ever in your Lordships’ Chamber, the debate did not go quite the way I was expecting. This has been quite a catch-all group trying to cover a number of very complicated issues. I thank the noble …..."Baroness Grey-Thompson - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 12 Dec 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
"I thank the noble Lord; I will cover that later in my summing up, if that is okay, but I will come to back it. What happens in other jurisdictions makes it really difficult for doctors, which means that we need clarity in this Bill about what would happen in …..."Baroness Grey-Thompson - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 12 Dec 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
"My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 21, tabled in my name, from personal experience. The richness of the debate today shows that, even in your Lordships’ Chamber, we all have completely different experiences of how we access a GP practice.
I tabled this amendment partly from personal experience, trying …..."Baroness Grey-Thompson - View Speech
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Division Vote (Lords)
10 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill -
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Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB) voted Aye
and in line with the House
One of
26 Crossbench Aye votes vs
18 Crossbench No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 244 Noes - 220
Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 05 Dec 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
"My Lords, I originally requested that later amendments that I have on disability language, as defined under the Equality Act, be moved into this group, but they were not. I think it is important that we have a chance to debate them as well. Language is the dress of thought, …..."Baroness Grey-Thompson - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 05 Dec 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
"I would not be able to accept the amendment as tabled because I have numerous other amendments on disability, language, BSL, different levels of interpretation and Makaton that are all important when having these conversations. Following the offer that the noble and learned Lord made to the noble Lord, Lord …..."Baroness Grey-Thompson - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 05 Dec 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
"My Lords, my Amendments 13 and 309 are probing amendments. I recognise that the 60 months and the 12 months in my two amendments do not quite tally, but they were tabled at quite different times.
Amendment 309 is quite simple. It looks to open a discussion and seeks to …..."Baroness Grey-Thompson - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 2nd December 2025
Asked by:
Baroness Grey-Thompson (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to promote multimodal literacy as part of the new curriculum rollout.
Answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern
- Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This government’s ambition is for every child and young person to receive a rich, broad, inclusive and innovative education.
The department agrees with the Curriculum and Assessment Review that building the skills for young people to critically engage with and assess information from a range of sources, including multi-modal texts, is increasingly important.
The reformed English programme of study and English language GCSE will expose students to the study of a wider range of text types and genres, including transient texts, supporting them to analyse and challenge arguments, building media literacy.
Media literacy is an increasingly important skill to enable young people to identify “fake news” and to spot different types of mis- and disinformation, especially online.
Secure, well-founded knowledge is essential for students to understand how arguments are constructed across different types of media and to recognise the various ways in which language can be used to persuade.
Written Question
Tuesday 2nd December 2025
Asked by:
Baroness Grey-Thompson (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government what the timeline is for delivering (1) the new primary oracy framework, and (2) the combined secondary oracy, writing and reading framework.
Answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern
- Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The department welcomes the Curriculum and Assessment Review’s focus on oracy. Expressing oneself fluently and communicating well is crucial for life and work, and an important vehicle for social justice.
We will make sure that communication skills are more clearly expressed through revised programmes of study. We will also create a primary oracy framework and a combined secondary oracy, writing and reading framework to be published following the revised national curriculum.
The primary oracy framework will support teachers to help their pupils become confident, fluent speakers by the end of key stage 2. This will build on our primary frameworks for reading and writing.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 21 Nov 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
"So, the two doctors could ask an entirely different set of questions to each person who is requesting to end their life?..."Baroness Grey-Thompson - View Speech
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