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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I am afraid the situation is even worse, because the fact is that under the Bill they will not be liable for mistakes made in pursuit of the scheme set out in the Bill. They will…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I, too, am grateful, Mr Dowd. I stress that I am discussing the suggestion in the amendment that assisted dying be taken out of the NHS and not be part of the normal pathways…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I am grateful to you, Mr Dowd, and to my right hon. Friend for his concern for my welfare, which is much appreciated. However, he will be relieved to know that I have plenty of…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The opportunity is there in the Bill for private businesses to be established to deliver assisted dying services. Indeed, it would be quite…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Although these provisions may seem irrelevant to the Bill—I do not think any of us wishes to see the creation of an assisted dying agency—I am nevertheless grateful to my hon.…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Will the hon. Member give way?04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I have one last point to make, Mr Dowd, which I hope you will regard as in order because, as I said, it goes to the heart of things. At the moment, the Bill does not specify how…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I shall—I am winding up now, Mr Dowd. These amendments go to the heart of this great absence—this blank space—in the middle of the Bill, which is how on earth it will be…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 71, in clause 4, page 2, line 31, at end insert— “(4A) The practitioner must, following the preliminary discussion under subsection (3), refer that person…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Amendment made: 341, in clause 4, page 2, line 33, leave out from “subsection (3)” to the end of line…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I rise to speak to this important group of amendments, which are all relevant to the duty to refer, whereby a doctor who does not want to advise a patient on assisted dying is…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I think that we are just concluding one of the most important debates that the Committee will have: the debate on clause 4. I welcome the concession from the hon. Member for Spen…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 412, in clause 4, page 2, line 32, leave out subsection (5).04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Nevertheless, amendments 403 and 404 have been selected for debate, and it is those amendments that would effect that declaration in the Bill.04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I am grateful for the points made by my right hon. Friend the Member for North West Hampshire. I will speak briefly to amendments 403 and 404, which would create an expectation…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I really regret that we have had such a small debate on the enormous question of how on earth assisted dying would actually be delivered. We are leaving it to Ministers,…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Amendment proposed : 270, in clause 4, page 2, line 25, at end insert— “(3A) Before conducting a…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)The hon. Lady says that the GMC states that doctors have an obligation to raise the treatment options before them, and I think that she thinks that this is a treatment option.…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)It is welcome that a commitment has been made to meet my right hon. Friend the Member for East Hampshire, who tabled the amendment, but a commitment to consult is not the same…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving me a very clear answer. I just want to be totally clear that we understand each other. Is she saying that every doctor facing a…04 Mar 2025