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HANSARDUkraineMay I join others in commending the Prime Minister for his diplomatic leadership over the last few days? Can he set out what steps he is taking to discourage third nations from…03 Mar 2025HANSARDWar in Ukraine: Third AnniversaryI start by congratulating my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) on securing this important debate, and saluting him for the…27 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)The purpose of new clause 6 is to get clarity on that issue, because of the interplay with section 26 of the Mental Capacity Act, which states that if a patient “has made an…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)My hon. Friend summarises a much more complicated conversation; I think he distils it down to an over-simplistic representation of how the conversation would go. A patient says,…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris. I wish to concentrate my remarks on new clause 6, which I tabled, but also to speak to amendments 8 and 124. To be…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. I start by gently pushing back on what my hon. Friend the Member for East Wiltshire said about this being a fork in…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Thirteenth sitting)My hon. Friend is making a valid argument, but I want to pick up the point made by the hon. Member for Stroud. He talked about illnesses that are inevitably progressive and cannot…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Will the hon. Lady give way?25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Forgive me, Chair. I will come to the point. If the person does not have insulin, the diabetes could be treated by administering it. Does my hon. Friend accept that, in those…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I do not think that offends the principle at all. Whether I was working within the NHS or the private sector, if a patient requested an onward referral to a different specialist,…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am feeling generous—it is a Tuesday.25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her intervention. She makes a number of points. First, may I say that I am sorry about her own health issues? I think she hit the nail on the…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I will give way because the hon. Lady has been very patient.25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)The hon. Member makes a valid point. The reality is that, regardless of specialty title, there will be individuals who are better placed to have certain conversations and discuss…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)Go on—I am feeling generous.25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I will try to make some progress. I want to move on to the other point I want to address, which is around bogging down the whole process with layer upon layer of bureaucracy. We…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I fear that my hon. Friend may be oversimplifying what I was saying. Perhaps I was not clear enough, so I will elucidate. I was certainly not suggesting that the required skills…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am grateful for the hon. Member’s intervention, which leads on to the point I was going to make. We are getting bogged down in nomenclature about what speciality is involved…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am grateful to you, Chair, and to my hon. Friend the Member for Reigate for her intervention. She is right: it is absolutely critical that patients are given the full…25 Feb 2025HANSARD Reform of Private Family Law HearingsIt is a sad reality of life that marriages fail. It can happen for a variety of reasons, and I do not seek to provide a critique on the underlying causes in today’s debate.…13 Feb 2025