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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I stand here as a disabled woman. Under the Bill, as a disabled woman, I would not —by reason only of being a disabled woman—be eligible to have access to assisted dying. The…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am delighted that the right hon. Gentleman has made that point. Inserting the amendment—and the language of, and focus on, “benefit”—in a paragraph that deals with the two…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)Okay. Would the hon. Lady not agree that it has been an extraordinarily rich discussion that reflects our ability to build on the oral evidence that we heard the week before last…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)I thank the hon. Lady for the work she has done today. As a fellow new Member who sat on the Employment Rights Bill Committee, I can tell her that we debated many amendments from…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree, as Max Hill did in oral evidence, that it would be helpful to have definitions of the three concepts in clause 26? Although we are discussing an earlier…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)The hon. Gentleman may remember the speech that I made in the Chamber about my own experience of extreme physical pain, and indeed extreme physical suffering, as a child. The…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)Will the hon. Lady give way?12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)I appreciate the hon. Lady raising the need to use accurate legal language. Does she agree, therefore, that introducing “undue influence”, which is used regularly in the law of…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)I will make some progress. The concept set out by the hon. Member for Richmond Park is the bare bones of what is needed in the complex decision making required across various…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)On the hon. Lady’s point about being clear-eyed, it is important that we look closely at the drafting of the Bill and the utility of the Mental Capacity Act. There are eight…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I appreciate my hon. Friend bringing up that point. It is important to note that all Commonwealth jurisdictions that have assisted dying use the concept of mental capacity. We are…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)For clarity, I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland Central on what would strengthen the Bill. The exceptions only apply where the right and proper Mental Capacity…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)I am pleased to hear the hon. Lady’s agreement. As someone who has worked in this space for a long time, I say that if she does not want to have the impact in law of putting in…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)I do not have a list of the case law in front of me—I am sure it will be possible for that to be found for my hon. Friend—but it is done regularly. The Mental Capacity Act is used…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)I appreciate the hon. Member’s intervention, but I do not agree. Taken together, the parameters around the six-month limit, clause 2(3) and the requirement for a mental capacity…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady for making that statement. That is not the assumption. As I will say later, the term “ableism” is very much grounded in a deficit model of…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)No, I will make some progress. To replace the established concept of mental capacity with “ability” would create more problems than it seeks to solve, and is not underpinned by a…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)With respect to the hon. Member for Richmond Park, I do not support her amendments, which seek to replace the references in the Bill to the Mental Capacity Act with the concept of…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)I will give way to the hon. Member for Richmond Park, who asked first.11 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. Stocksbridge Speciality Steels in my constituency has world-leading specialist capability to produce high-grade steel parts currently used in aerospace. I am proud of this…04 Feb 2025