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HANSARDSewageIn Stroud, Severn Trent has invested £25 million to stop overflow of sewage into the River Frome. Together with natural flood management from our district council, we have made…23 Apr 2025HANSARDPolitical DonationsI thank the right hon. Gentleman for that point. The lack of transparency is a key issue. In 2023, oil and gas lobbyists spoke to Tory MPs on average 1.4 times per day, so is it…31 Mar 2025HANSARDPolitical DonationsI thank my hon. Friend the Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Irene Campbell), for opening this debate, and Mr Stone, who started the petition. May I also say to the…31 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-eighth sitting)Briefly, the hon. Lady says that only 30% of palliative care is funded by the NHS, but that is quite spurious, because everyone who gives palliative care—all doctor time,…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)Although I see the hon. Gentleman’s ideas and points, what will be paid for here is the assessment. I know no medical process where the outcome is paid for, rather than the…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)I will be very brief. This is the most difficult speech I have had to make in the Committee. I think all of us who support the Bill are disappointed; I am sure that my hon. Friend…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)I am afraid I do not understand how we could change this. I just wanted to put on record that I feel that a four-year delay is excessive. I have nothing further to add to that,…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)I find the delay of four years that new clause 40 would introduce excessive in terms of the time taken and needed to deliver the requirements to implement the Bill in legal terms.…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-eighth sitting)I really want to point out that there is no incentive to agree to assisted dying, only to assess for it. There is no reason for people to be corrupted into agreeing, because it…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)I understand the hon. Gentleman’s concern, but that is just not the way that medicine works. The doctor is under a code of practice, so if he is seen to lie about assessment of…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-eighth sitting)There may be an incentive to review a patient for assisted dying, but there is absolutely no incentive in the Bill to approve assisted dying. The idea that doctors would approve…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-eighth sitting)My hon. Friend is making a reasoned speech. The thing is that the way the NHS is delivered is already very complex: for example, GPs are private providers who are on a contract…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-eighth sitting)I thank the hon. Lady for her impassioned speech, but we are rather getting off the point. The division between private and NHS provision is spurious in a process that will be…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-eighth sitting)Does the hon. Gentleman accept that end-of-life care is also part of the NHS? That has always been part of the NHS, and it is not promoting health but enabling a good death.25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-eighth sitting)Will the hon. Member give way?25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fifth sitting)The matter of unlicensed drugs sounds very alarming, but we cannot regulate a drug through the MHRA if it unlicensed, and we would be looking for therapeutic effect, which would…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fifth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for his sensitive and clear worry. But it is important to note that we would not in any circumstances try to do something that would finish someone’s life…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fifth sitting)Does my hon. Friend accept that there are ways of regulating drugs other than through the MHRA?18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fifth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for his experience in a clinical setting. I would remind everybody that in the Bill we are trying to help people die in a comfortable way, and I do not feel…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fifth sitting)I almost agreed with the hon. Gentleman earlier, when he asked at one point, should we not just leave this to doctors? One of the key things the hon. Gentleman said is that the…18 Mar 2025