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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I absolutely agree with the right hon. Lady. There is a whole set of challenges, including in England, in respect of the impact assessment and the Bill’s commencement.…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 360, in clause 5, page 3, line 23, at end insert— “(e) who, If receiving remuneration for the provision of services in connection with the provision of…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)The amendment speaks to the general confusion we remain in about how the assisted dying law would be implemented and who would operate it. We are in a great cloud of unknowing…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am glad to have that suggestion. Clause 32 is extremely broad. It basically empowers the Secretary of State to set up a service in any way they choose, potentially including in…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am glad to hear we will have more clarity. Having assisted suicide as an NHS service is fraught with enormous risks, along the lines we have discussed and will no doubt continue…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)My amendments state that if a medical professional is paid for delivering assisted suicide, the money they receive should be transparent. The answer is therefore the former. I do…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am grateful for that clarity, although we now seem to be less clear than we were. I understood the hon. Member for Spen Valley to be saying that there will not be private…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)It would be helpful if the hon. Lady clarified whether private provision will be allowed under the Bill, because I think we have a party split. My right hon. Friend the Member for…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)It certainly is. Okay, so it could be either. This will be an NHS service, with all the implications for general practice, doctor-patient relations and secondary care and social…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for raising a number of points, including the extraordinary revelation that we are about to find out how the Bill will operate in practice, with…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)In the light of the suggestion from the hon. Member for Spen Valley that there will be further amendments later, when we can discuss the shape of the provision and presumably any…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)In a sense, this is a technical set of amendments that consolidate the provisions for secondary legislation. However, it reflects the seriousness of a concern that I and others…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I am sorry about that. I am trying to make the point that the amendments would all grant a large number of powers to Ministers through the statutory instrument procedure. That is…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I will quickly echo the points well made by the hon. Member for Bradford West in support of the amendments in the name of the hon. Member for York Central. It is important to…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)That is right. The preliminary discussion will not, but there is nothing to stop the conversation beginning before the person is 18. I know they cannot formally begin the process…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)The hon. Gentleman is impugning the motivation of his colleague, the hon. Member for York Central, who is herself an experienced practitioner in the NHS. To suggest that she has…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I was not intending to speak on this amendment, but since you have called me, Mrs Harris, I will quickly respond to the comments of the hon. Member for Rother Valley. I sincerely…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)Well, that concern for the individual clinician is in the context of their wider obligation to treat their patients well and to manage a resource—their own time—in a way that is…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)There is no rule that can be applied universally in the abstract. All rules take their value from how they are introduced. On the hon. Gentleman’s hypothesis, I do not in…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I understand, but it would be interesting to know whether the Government have produced a delegated powers memorandum, and when it will be published. I have four quick points to…05 Mar 2025