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HANSARDSocial Security BenefitsLet me state at the outset that the Opposition support the measures to uprate pensions in line with earnings and benefits in line with inflation. I am honoured, personally, to…04 Feb 2025HANSARDSocial Security BenefitsWill the hon. Lady give way?04 Feb 2025HANSARDSocial Security BenefitsWill the hon. Lady give way?04 Feb 2025HANSARDSocial Security BenefitsI am grateful for the opportunity. We had a whole series of plans that were sadly interrupted by the general election result, and I will come on in a moment to some of the…04 Feb 2025HANSARDSocial Security BenefitsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. That was a key part of the reforms brought in towards the last part of the last decade, enabled by universal credit—a much simpler system. I am…04 Feb 2025HANSARDSocial Security BenefitsThe hon. Gentleman reflects the experience that many of us have had in our surgeries. Nevertheless, I do not think that health reform on its own will do the job. As I mentioned,…04 Feb 2025HANSARDSocial Security BenefitsMy right hon. Friend replied, “No”, to the interviewer. We are not looking at means-testing the triple lock. She was talking more generally about the challenge of means-testing in…04 Feb 2025HANSARDSocial Security BenefitsClearly, there are questions about the long-term sustainability of our pensions system and our national insurance fund, but I think the shadow Chancellor was talking about the…04 Feb 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities and Long-term Health Conditions: Work SupportThe answer to my question is £1.8 billion. That is the cost of Labour’s economic inactivity and its failure to reform welfare since the election. The sum is the same as the saving…03 Feb 2025HANSARDPeople with Disabilities and Long-term Health Conditions: Work SupportThe media report that people in No. 10 are tearing their hair out in frustration at the DWP taking so long to come up with welfare reforms. We have already been waiting seven…03 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q Professor Hoyano, what do you think about the indemnity against civil liability in the Bill? Do you think it is appropriate to indemnify all doctors, even if they have made a…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q This is a question for Claire Williams. It was interesting that you said you were not aware of what drugs might be used in assisted dying. We obviously do not yet know what will…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q Professor Preston, I wonder what you think about this idea of a panel instead of the High Court judge. A lot of Members who voted for the Bill on Second Reading did so partly on…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q This is a question for Mr Malone. May I say how greatly I sympathise with what you have been through? I am very sorry to be fighting against you in this matter. I really can…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q Following straight on from that, do you imagine it to be an NHS-funded service if it is outside core general practice? If so, what might the implications be for resourcing,…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)On a point of order, Mrs Harris.30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixth sitting)Q Can I have one minute with Dr Furst and one minute with Mr Greenwich? Dr Furst, I have had a look at the reports of the South Australia Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board,…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixth sitting)Q Okay. Thank you very much for that. Mr Greenwich, you said a couple of things. You said that voluntary assisted dying supports palliative care in terms of funding. I read that…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q It is great to hear about the case for common law over the Human Rights Act. Yesterday we heard about parliamentary sovereignty. This is a tremendous process we are having here.…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q Professor House, in Oregon, which partly inspired this Bill, I understand that there is an expectation—in fact, a requirement—that there be a psychological assessment if the…29 Jan 2025