"My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendment 405 because the Equality Act is relevant to it. It provides a legal duty to provide reasonable adjustments for disabled people, which is defined quite broadly and I think would include a person who was terminally ill. The amendment is currently worded …..." Baroness Hollins - View Speech
"My Lords, I have an amendment in this group and I support the noble Baroness, Lady Berger, in this. I just want to add to earlier comments. The transition from children’s to adult services at 18 is well known to be a very confusing and destabilising period during which key …..." Baroness Hollins - View Speech
"If such a meeting were to take place, I would be delighted to ask the noble and learned Lord to consider the alternative wording I proposed when I spoke to the amendment...." Baroness Hollins - View Speech
"It is the Equality Act, not the disability Act. I suggested that the definition of “disability” in the Equality Act, with respect to something like this, would in fact include someone with a long-term condition or mental illness, as well as any other disabling condition that the noble and learned …..." Baroness Hollins - View Speech
"My Lords, of the 11 million people who do not have the essential digital skills for life, more than half are disabled people, and the barriers created by digital approaches everywhere increase the barriers that disabled people face. What steps do the Government take specifically to ensure that the NHS …..." Baroness Hollins - View Speech
"My Lords, I have amendments in this group, and I have added my name to other amendments. I start by adding my support to Amendment 460, tabled by my noble friend Lady Finlay. Safeguarding measures are not optional; they are essential. To ensure that each individual requesting assisted dying is …..." Baroness Hollins - View Speech
"I thank the noble Baroness. I thought about that, and it could indeed be brought back in a different way later in the debate, but I feel that the prevention of coercion is really important, so thinking about it at this stage is really helpful...." Baroness Hollins - View Speech
"Before the noble Baroness sits down, can I just ask which amendments she was speaking to, because this is Committee and not Second Reading? Every amendment that I have tabled is designed to make the Bill better and I feel quite concerned to be accused of time-wasting...." Baroness Hollins - View Speech
"There is no suggestion in anything that I have said of imposing palliative care—none at all. I have listened to the debate, and I was not going to speak personally but I will now, since the noble Lord has challenged me on that. My husband was dying with motor neurone …..." Baroness Hollins - View Speech
"My Lords, we are going to address palliative care in detail in a later group. We are going to make a distinction between palliative care of a general kind and specialist palliative care, and we are going to think about specialist palliative care at its best. Again, we hear day …..." Baroness Hollins - View Speech