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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I agree with my hon. Friend about the number of amendments in this vein, but clearly the amendments suggested by my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch bring…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I agree. An assessment by a specialist would protect patients and give another opportunity to spot coercion—something that we all want to safeguard against. I welcome the…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I rise to speak to the amendments in my name—namely, new clause 12 and amendments 336, 337 and 335. Yesterday, we spoke about the evidence we received from the British Medical…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I would welcome that as a positive step forward—I think there is probably still some work to do in that regard. My hon. Friend and I will have conversations on the wording of that…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I hear that, and I think my hon. Friend and I are on the same page on many of these matters. I think there were some drafting issues when I discussed amendments with Mencap at an…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I beg to move amendment 347, in clause 7, page 4, line 4, leave out from “to” to the second “the” in line 5 and insert— “ensure that steps have been taken to confirm that”. This…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I will not press amendment 347 to a vote, but I will speak to it, and to this group of amendments. First, I shall turn to amendments 14 to 19, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I will not come back on anything but, obviously, I will press some of these amendments in due course. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Thank you for letting me speak, Mr Dowd. I will be brief. As we reach the end of our debate on clause 4, I regret some of the decisions that we have made. I welcome the fact that…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I note that my hon. Friend the Member for Spen Valley has said that she is minded to accept amendment 341. I will,…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I echo the points that have been made about the importance of the initial conversations, particularly for those who do not have English as their first language. I made a…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)The Mental Capacity Act code of practice outlines that following a court judgment, there is a separate capacity test for making a will or a gift, entering into a contract,…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)In the evidence from Mencap and in large swathes of the written evidence, we have heard grave concerns from communities representing people with learning disabilities about how…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I hear that. There are different decisions, whether it is buying a coffee or seeking an assisted death. Would my hon. Friend concur that, for some individuals in those scenarios…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Harris. Of the three amendments in my name, I come first to amendments 319 and 320. Clause 1 outlines that the legislation…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I accept that we had a long debate on issues relating to mental capacity in respect of the amendments tabled by the…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 322, in clause 3, page 2, line 13, at end insert— “except that— (a) for the purposes of an assessment of capacity under this Act, a person must be assumed…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I will not speak for long. I spoke in great depth about my amendment and other amendments this morning. Over the past few weeks, hon. Members will have heard, long and hard, about…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I will read paragraph 4.50 of the mental capacity code of practice: “For certain kinds of complex decisions (for example, making a will)”— and the others I have just mentioned—…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The amendments before us have left me in a significant quandary, as some Members are aware. I am concerned that while their proposers are genuinely seeking to improve the Bill,…25 Feb 2025