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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I think so. The hon. Lady is absolutely right that there is this difficult loophole that somebody may have capacity and be refusing food and drink and would therefore potentially…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 12, in clause 2, page 2, line 2, at end insert— “(c) their illness, disease or medical condition is found on a list that the Secretary of State may by…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I will be fairly brief in speaking to the amendments, but they go to the heart of things. We have tried to tighten the Bill by excluding medical conditions from the definition of…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I sense that the wish of the Committee is probably not to accept the amendment, so I do not propose to press it to a Division, but we have just heard quite clearly, in response to…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I do not want to cut off the hon. Lady in full flow, but I want to echo her points. The hon. Member for Stroud has made his point before and we have had an exchange on it. There…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)The hon. Member mentions the principle that palliative care is a holistic service. Does she agree that, given that the Bill’s advocates—including the promoter, the hon. Lady for…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I rise to briefly speak in support of amendment 281, moved by the hon. Lady and tabled by the hon. Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell). At the moment that somebody seeks…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)My hon. Friend is making a thoughtful speech, but I am concerned that he suggests that the skills required are simply the skills of conversation. The skills required are the…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)The hon. Lady is making a very good speech about how things should work and how things do work, in many cases, when the NHS does its job brilliantly. First, I want to correct the…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)To pick up on that point about Dr Cox, I think it is critical that the hon. Member for Spen Valley cited Dr Cox in support of the hon. Lady’s contention that the Bill is adequate.…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I will be quick, Mr Efford. I appreciate that we have been exhaustively over the detail of the amendments. I deeply regret that none of the amendments that were tabled to…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for explaining why, having opposed the Bill on Second Reading, he now seems to be supporting it. I wish I had heard, during our debates in the…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)The hon. Gentleman has been on his feet; I appreciate that and am very grateful for his contribution to the debates that we have had. I simply want to make the point that what the…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)On a point of order, Mrs Harris. The Minister gave a brilliant speech in support of the Bill as it stands, so I simply do not understand how, having explained so clearly why she…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)This morning, we adjourned in the middle of an intervention. I do not know whether the hon. Member for Banbury wants to resume it.12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)I am very struck by that last point. Does my hon. Friend agree that the purposes of these amendments build on the principle of the Bill? The Bill recognises the existence of…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am not sure that we are going to satisfy each other on this point. A lot of the evidence that we have heard conclusively asserts that there is a widespread problem of families…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)The value of the word “encouragement” is that it is broader than simply “pressure” or “coercion”. In response to the points made by the hon. Members for Spen Valley and for Rother…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am trying to ensure that there will be a sufficiently broad scope that doctors must be obliged to check that there has been no undue influence, pressure or encouragement. An…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)What the hon. Member for Luton South and South Bedfordshire said is not the case at all. What the Bill would do is to exempt people who go under this new procedure from the…12 Feb 2025