The Lord Stevens of Birmingham
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Stevens of Birmingham's full title is The Lord Stevens of Birmingham. His name is Simon Laurence Stevens, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
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Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
0 Content(0.0%)
2 Not-Content(1.2%)
160 didn't vote(98.8%)
2026-02-04
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62–295
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2026-05-18
King’s Speech
The firebombing of synagogues, the Golders Green stabbings, the Heaton Park murders—the whole country clearly needs to wake up to what is happening. The Government are right, finally, to proscribe the Iranian IRGC—which the head of MI5 says has been link
2026-04-21
Cancer Outcomes in the UK
My Lords, I pile on to the congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Patel, on this fantastic session. Given the excellence of the contributions that we have already heard, I will just draw out a small number of things. I will try not to be duplicative of
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords—
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I think what follows from that is that the noble and learned Lord is accepting the position that hospices will not be in a position to restrict their employees from participating in assisted dying, if they are doing that somewhere other than in the hospi
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
To clarify, I think Clause 31(8)(b) prevents a hospice as an employer restricting its employees from participating in assisted dying if they do it somewhere else. Is the noble and learned Lord saying that he is willing to change that?
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I will be equivalently concise. It is important to connect Amendment 657, which specifies that assisted dying
“is not to be regarded as medical treatment”,
with our debate on the broader conscience protections that the Bill needs to include. The re
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I think the noble and learned Lord has just made a very important point. To clarify: he is saying that Clause 31(8)(b) would not apply in hospices; in other words, as drafted, the Bill would prevent a hospice as an employer from restricting doctors who w
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I thank the noble and learned Lord for giving away. One answer would be to simply put in the Bill that this is not a treatment, in which case all the other consequences would not arise. The question, just to clarify, is: is he saying that assisted dying
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
On the thrust of the argument, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, that approaching this probabilistically, rather than with a single number, clearly makes sense. It is wonderful to hear the impact that these new immunotherapies have had in his own
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Perhaps the noble and learned Lord will clarify the answer he gave on Scotland. I think he is saying that even though the Scottish Parliament has decided that assisted dying should not be lawful in Scotland, a Scottish hospice could nevertheless not prev
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I would be interested to come back to that on Report when we have had a chance to investigate that point further.
Fundamentally, this shows that there is a great problem, a structural problem, in trying to do these types of big social changes through
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
It is not so much a matter of prejudice because, as I understand it, this provision was inserted in the House of Commons in the anticipation that the Scottish Parliament was going to have before it a Bill on assisted suicide, which it would at that point
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Is the noble and learned Lord suggesting that Scottish health professionals will be travelling south to undertake assisted dying? Is it a sort of Berwick-upon-Tweed provision?
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Can the noble and learned Lord elaborate on his second reason?
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
The noble Baroness brings me neatly on to the second point I was going to make, which is that the lack of safeguards in Scotland precisely demonstrates the constitutional and practical difficulty of trying to legislate in Scotland while a number of those
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Most of the amendments in this group relate to Wales, but some of them also relate to Scotland. Notwithstanding the noble Lord’s sensation of Groundhog Day, there has been an important development since we met last Friday, which is that the Scottish Parl
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Even if the noble and learned Lord does not adopt the scheme put forward by the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, would he nevertheless accept that, for the co-ordinating doctors, it would be valuable to ascertain the information contained in proposed new par
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I will speak briefly to two amendments in this group, the first being Amendment 334. In particular, I hope to draw the attention of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, the sponsor of the Bill, to subsection (6)(m) of the proposed new cla
2026-02-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, contrary to Amendment 129, I think that the Bill gets it right in requiring, at Clause 4(3), that the voluntary assisted dying commissioner must hold or have held office as a judge of the High Court, the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court. Th
2026-02-24
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, I declare my interest as chair of Cancer Research UK. Given that smoking continues to be the single biggest cause of cancer, it will not be a surprise that I oppose the amendments in this group, which would substantially weaken this landmark le
2026-02-23
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
My Lords, I declare my interest as chair of King’s College London. I think that there is a welcome consensus that the UK should aim for self-sufficiency in the production of new doctors through medical school, specialty training and into the NHS. In fair
2026-02-12
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
I want to come in on the point about whether or not the UK Government would lack the ability to control the expansion of international places in the grandfathered campuses. Is it not the case that, in fact, the UK Government do have such a tool at their
2026-02-12
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
Is it the noble Lord’s understanding that there would be the opportunity for creep as is currently set out in the Bill? For example, if Queen Mary University of London wished to establish a medical school in Liechtenstein, which currently lacks one, it
2026-02-12
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
My Lords, I speak in support of the thrust of the amendments in this group. I start by acknowledging the concern that I think is animating the Government on this point, which is that they do not want to see a thin end of a wedge that opens up substantia
2026-02-12
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
One objective proposition that has been suggested is two years of NHS experience, which, it is said, would be readily trackable on Oriel. Can the Minister confirm whether that would indeed be possible?
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Register of Interests · 2 entries on file
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Chair, UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency
registered 2024-05-29 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
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Residential property in London SE11 from which rental income is received (interest ceased 12 March 2026)
registered 2021-07-19 · amended 2026-04-01
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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2026-03-13
Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Finance
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