Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Lord Scriven Excerpts

Friday 16th January 2026 Lords Chamber

[Lord Markham (Con)]

Again, it is about whether you put that financial support clarification in black and white and say, “This must be something that someone’s done”, where it might not even be relevant to the circumstances, or where the—

[Lord Scriven (LD)]

The fact that somebody has a terminal diagnosis of six months automatically triggers SR1, so that part of the amendment is superfluous. There are things in amendments that automatically happen but which they would put in the Bill, but they do not need to be put in the Bill by the amendments because they already happen.

[Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB)]

My Lords—

[Lord Scriven (LD)]

You cannot intervene on an intervention.

[Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB)]

I beg your pardon; I am sorry.