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The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Committee was appointed to consider the safeguards and procedures contained in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill by hearing evidence including from professional bodies, those with professional experience of coronial services, and ministers.
Over two sessions, the committee will hear from the bill’s sponsors Lord Falconer of Thoroton and Kim Leadbeater MP, plus health care professionals from the Royal Colleges of Physicians, GPs and Nursing.
Find out more https://committees.parliament.uk/event/25323/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/
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The Crime and Policing Bill is a broad score government bill that, among other things, seeks to tackle anti-social behaviour, knife crime, violence against women and girls, theft, child sexual abuse, other sexual offending and youth radicalisation.
Members will debate the main aims of the bill at second reading.
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The Justice and Home Affairs Committee will question three witnesses about the launch of the EU’s Entry / Exit System.
Giving evidence will be:
🟥 Simon Calder (@CalderTravel), travel journalist and broadcaster
🟥 Dr Niovi Vavoula, Senior Lecturer in Migration and Security;
🟥 Simon Lejeune, Chief Safety and Stations and Security Officer at Eurostar.
Find out more https://committees.parliament.uk/event/25184/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/
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Hear from former MI5 Director General Baroness Manningham-Buller in the latest episode of Lord Speaker’s Corner as she discusses the relationship between MI5 and MI6, reading upside down, meeting Vladimir Putin and her mother’s secret work in the Second World War.
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Former head of MI5 Baroness Manningham-Buller joins Lord Speaker’s Corner to discuss the relationship between MI5 and MI6, reading upside down, meeting Vladimir Putin and whether Russia is at war with the West.
Eliza Manningham-Buller, Baroness Manningham-Buller, served in MI5 for 34 years, becoming Director General in 2002 before retiring in 2007. In this episode, she speaks to Lord McFall of Alcluith about her career, including how she joined MI5, her family connection with espionage and leading the Service in the aftermath of the July 7 bombings:
“I had learnt something from the military called ‘battle rhythm’, and I expected us to be flat out for some time on this, our role being to help the police in understanding this crime, this atrocity, this horror, and therefore I wanted people to come into work fresh.”
She also dispels a common misconception of the relationship between MI5 and MI6:
“The ‘Le Carré’ view that the two organisations are constantly at each other’s throats is entirely fictional. We both help each other, as we do with GCHQ. It’s a close-knit community. The other very important partner for MI5 is the police.”
Baroness Manningham-Buller later explains she thinks it might be right to agree with foreign policy expert Dr Fiona Hill’s assertion that Russia is already at war with the UK and the West:
“Since the invasion of Ukraine, and the various things I read that the Russians have been doing here, sabotage, intelligence collection, attacking people, and so on… Fiona Hill may be right in saying we’re already at war with Russia. It’s a different sort of war, but the hostility, the cyber-attacks, the physical attacks, intelligence work is extensive.”
She also shares her experience of meeting the Russian President 20 years ago following the G8 meeting in Gleneagles:
“We all hoped that the past history of Russia wouldn’t prevail, and, at the end of the Soviet Union, we would have a potential partner, and that was one of the reasons why Putin was with us for the G8 in 2005… I met him when he came back to London. But actually we were wrong in that, because Russia is extremely hostile to the West and we’ve seen it in all sorts of ways… I didn’t anticipate that within a year, he’d be ordering the murder on London streets of [Russian dissident Alexander] Litvinenko.”
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The Lord Speaker recently met John McFall – Paralympian, surgeon and member of the @EuropeanSpaceAgency astronaut corps. John is set to become the first astronaut with a physical disability to take part in a long-duration mission to the International Space Station.
They discussed how space exploration contributes directly to life on earth – including how microgravity experiments can drive innovation in science, engineering and medicine and solve real-world challenges on earth. John said he hopes to change perceptions of those with disabilities, urging people to “assume capability”, unless otherwise stated.
He also spoke to the Lords UK Engagement with Space Committee who are looking into the opportunities and issues relating to UK and space.
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Members continue discussions on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on Friday 19 September. This is the second of two days of second reading, the first phase of a bill’s passage through the Lords.
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is a private members’ bill, which is a type of public bill introduced by an individual member of the Lords (rather than the government).
If passed, it would allow adults in England and Wales with a prognosis of less than six months to live to be provided with assistance to end their lives, subject to eligibility criteria and conditions.
Find out more and see a list of members speaking in the debate: https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2025/sept-2025/assisted-dying-bill-considered-by-lords/
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Lords members begin discussions on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on Friday 12 September. This is the first of two days of second reading, the first phase of a bill’s passage through the Lords. Almost 200 members are expected to speak over two days, bringing a range of professional and lived experience, including nurses, doctors and lawyers.
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is a private members’ bill, which is a type of public bill introduced by an individual member of the Lords (rather than the government).
If passed, it would allow adults in England and Wales with a prognosis of less than six months to live to be provided with assistance to end their lives, subject to eligibility criteria and conditions.
Find out more and see a list of members speaking in the debate: https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2025/sept-2025/assisted-dying-bill-considered-by-lords/
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