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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-seventh sitting)It may well be that the Minister has clarified the case sufficiently, but will she explain something for my sake? She is suggesting that the pharmacist inadvertently but…19 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-seventh sitting)It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Members for Ashford and for Banbury. I entirely concur with their points, particularly those that derive from the expertise of the hon. Member…19 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-sixth sitting)I appreciate that—there might be very little choice or no alternative. I am speaking in terms of the reality of life. We can do everything we can through the law to obviate…19 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-seventh sitting)I am grateful. With great respect to other members of the Committee, I think the hon. Gentleman is the most honest advocate of assisted dying among us, because he genuinely…19 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-seventh sitting)I support the principle of insisting that inducing people by dishonesty, coercion or pressure to kill themselves should be illegal, but my understanding is that it already is. If…19 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-seventh sitting)That is helpful and makes sense. The only justification for duplication must be that the duplication is only partial, which the Minister has just suggested it is. Not a complete…19 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-seventh sitting)I will be grateful if the Minister or the hon. Member for Spen Valley can explain the situations in which behaviour criminalised by clause 26(2) would not also amount to an…19 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-seventh sitting)I respect the difficulty of the position that the Minister is in, but I am afraid that we have to consider hypothetical scenarios, because we are creating law. Does she…19 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-seventh sitting)The amendment would specify that individuals should comply with the codes of practice issued by the Secretary of State. I am glad that the hon. Member for Spen Valley agreed to…19 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-seventh sitting)It is good to see you this evening, Mrs Harris. I have no objection to the hon. Lady’s amendments. I think there is value in broadening the offence to include actions performed…19 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-sixth sitting)The right hon. Lady clarifies the point very well. I concede—that is right. When someone goes to live in a care home, they yield, by necessity, a whole set of freedoms that one…19 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-seventh sitting)I acknowledge the point that the Minister is making. To the point made by my right hon. Friend the Member for North West Hampshire, we are talking not about two categories of…19 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-seventh sitting)I rise to speak to clause 25 as a whole. First, though, I welcome the amendments tabled by the hon. Member for Spen Valley, because I recognise that she is attempting to fix a…19 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fifth sitting)We are not necessarily talking about someone who is dying right here and now in consequence of the drugs they have taken—we could be talking about someone who is many months away…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fifth sitting)I am sorry; I was going to give way to my right hon. Friend.18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fifth sitting)I will give way to my right hon. Friend, but I want to invite Committee members to recognise or consider evidence that I have heard, from the settings where assisted deaths take…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fourth sitting)I very much respect the hon. Lady’s intention, and I support the amendments. On clause 16, however, I must take the opportunity to express a certain concern. The clause applies…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fifth sitting)Even in terminal care, when it is understood that a patient is close to death, doctors would surely not overlook a patient for whom an assisted death is clearly failing. The hon.…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fourth sitting)Before I give way to my right hon. Friend, I want to posit the hypothesis of a private provider that has been established explicitly for the purpose of facilitating the assisted…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fourth sitting)The hon. Lady is quite right that there is nothing to object to in these amendments or the clause. It is worth stating at this point, though, that in the context of the debate we…18 Mar 2025