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HANSARDTerminally 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 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 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 412, in clause 4, page 2, line 32, leave out subsection (5).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)I am grateful to you, Mr Dowd, but I want to explain why these amendments are appropriate to the Bill. The patient would have the opportunity to declare clearly that they do not…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 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 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 Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.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 (Fifteenth sitting)That is absolutely right. Either this is a medical treatment—in which it should be obligatory for a doctor presented with a patient who qualifies under the Bill and has the…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I was not asking for cases in which it might be the right choice for somebody—I recognise the argument there. I am asking when it might be appropriate for a doctor to suggest it.…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)On the suggestion that people will not know that this option is on the table, who are we talking about in those circumstances? I suggest we would be talking about people who are…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I will certainly give way in a moment. An enormous number of people will be dragged into the scope of the Bill by suggestions being made to the vulnerable people that we are…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)You are absolutely right, Mrs Harris; I am inviting her hon. Lady to intervene as she wishes to, but I recognise she does not have to do that at all.26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I recognise that. I should certainly address you, Mrs Harris.26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I will decline the hon. Gentleman’s intervention—how about that? I will make his decision for him. Would that be acceptable? I look forward to his speech. Let me wind up to the…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)The hon. Gentleman is right that people are well aware of this topic, and they would be quickly aware of the option if the Bill became law. Without getting into the question of…26 Feb 2025