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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-second sitting)I agree wholeheartedly. It is important to emphasise that this provision will apply only in a relatively small number of cases, but it is a very important one. It would be subject…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)We go back to the inconsistency argument. On the one hand, we are saying that we must have more psychiatrists, social workers and palliative care experts in the process. This…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)I appreciate that, but just this morning we heard from the hon. Member for Reigate that, because there are not enough psychiatrists and social workers, this panel is not workable…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)But that demolishes the central argument that the hon. Gentleman is making. On the one hand, he says that we are expanding access, but on the other, he says that the panel system…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)I do not want to make implications about what the hon. Gentleman might be saying, but am I correct that, with the adversarial position that he is supporting, a person coming to…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)There is a difference between an adversarial system and an inquisitorial system, which is what I believe is proposed for this panel. The panel would take not an adversarial but an…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-second sitting)I thank the hon. Gentleman for that question, but he is entirely misrepresenting my position. I have said that there should be a balance between safeguarding and ensuring that the…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-second sitting)In case I was not clear enough about my misgivings about the judicial stage, I will set them out again. In my view, the people making a High Court judgment probably do not have…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)My hon. Friend makes a really good point, especially on the issue of coercion. Amendments on coercion training have been agreed to. Does my hon. Friend think the court system as…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-second sitting)indicated dissent.12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-second sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Roger. I rise to speak to several new clauses and to amendment (e) to new clause 21. There were many comments yesterday about…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-second sitting)No.12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)If we follow that argument, does that mean that we would support the new clauses? If we are moving from that single point of reference—a High Court judge and judicial review—it is…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)My hon. Friend is saying that there is no mechanism to remove the voluntary assisted dying commissioner. Actually, paragraph 4(5) of new schedule 1 says: “The Secretary of State…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I will be brief, as I have already alluded to my support. I put on the record my support for amendment 93. There has not been a lot of debate on it because it is a fairly…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I completely understand what my hon. Friend is saying about what may need to happen in respect of medical intervention, but I gently point out that the amendment would not cover…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)It is an intervention, Ms McVey. My plea to the hon. Member is to focus on exactly what the amendment states. I appreciate all the stories and examples that he wishes to make, but…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)The hon. Member may be surprised to hear that I am inclined to support his amendment 362 and amendment 142 tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Broxtowe, not because of, in the…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)But this is a pure example.11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)To follow up on the example my hon. Friend gave earlier, if—to be glib—someone said, “None of your business”, she would want the doctor to keep probing. At what point does that…11 Mar 2025