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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I am very grateful for your evidence; it is really useful. I want to state, for the record and for information, that we have before us today three professionals from Australia,…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I want to give Professor Shakespeare the chance to respond to the point that we have heard. I am interested in whether you recognise that many disabled people—in fact, not just…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q It does, very helpfully. Can I come back to you quickly? You point out that to suffer is essentially a subjective experience, so it is very difficult for somebody from the…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q Okay, very quickly, from what we have heard from you today, it is clear that the interface of assisted suicide, palliative care and NHS care generally in social care and…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q Dr Graham, on the points about article 14, I very much appreciate and welcome your belief in parliamentary sovereignty, and the suggestion that the courts should listen to…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q Mr Robinson, I want to come back to the question of coercion. We heard from advocates of assisted dying laws elsewhere that there is hardly any evidence of cases of coercion in…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Yes, thank you. So we need it anyway: in all cases, there should be a psychological assessment as part of the process. Professor House: As part of the assessment, yes.29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Are we asking one question each, Mr Dowd, or may I ask two if I am quick?29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q Indeed. Lastly, I am very interested in your suggestions about a separate service and about the importance of protecting the rights of professionals who do not want to be…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q I will ask you one quick question, Dr Cox. Dr Clarke said that the capacity assessment was poorly conducted. Do you think that the threshold is appropriate, using the Mental…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q Sir Nicholas, do you want to comment? I have another question for you as well, but is it the case that prosecutions will be more likely? Maybe you disagree. Sir Nicholas Mostyn:…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q I have a quick question for each of you. Sir Max, as you point out, the Bill does not repeal the ban on assisted suicide. It would still be illegal to assist someone to go to…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q You do not agree. In that case, this Bill would be worse for somebody with your condition because it does not address your condition and it would put your relatives at greater…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q I wanted to follow up further, but because time is tight I will jump to Mr Ruck Keene. Can you explain a little bit about your concerns about the Mental Capacity Act and its…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)I apologise. Dr Spielvogel: No problem. To answer your question more directly, I have had several people over the past couple of years who had no idea that it was an option and…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q I have four very quick questions. I would be grateful if you could try to answer them quickly, because we have to let everybody else in before the end of the session. Dr…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Sorry, but how many do you think?28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q Thank you very much. I was also concerned by what you said about what you called family coercion, which is people trying to stop their relatives taking this option. Do you think…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q I will just jump straight to my final question. Dr Kaan, you said that you felt that people who felt they might be a burden were exercising their autonomy, and it was a…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)On a point of order, Mr Dowd. I wonder, given the fact that we have had so many really helpful conversations and questions but not enough time for everybody to ask everything they…28 Jan 2025