§ The Lord Privy Seal (Lord Wakeham)My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper.
§ Moved, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider the ethical, legal and clinical implications of a person's right to withhold consent to life-prolonging treatment, and the position of persons who are no longer able to give or withhold consent; and to consider whether and in what circumstances actions that have as their intention or a likely consequence the shortening of another person's life may be justified on the grounds that they accord with that person's wishes or with that person's best interests; and in all the foregoing considerations to pay regard to the likely effects of changes in law or medical practice on society as a whole.—(Lord Wakeham.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.