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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)I appreciate that my hon. Friend has given way a number of times, but I gently suggest that we already know the crux of the Bill and what we are debating. The “why” is that people…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)For clarity, at what point in the conversation does the hon. Member expect the question to be raised? In reference to an assessing doctor, do I take it that the question must be…11 Mar 2025HANSARDPublic Procurement: Support for SMEsRecent figures show that hundreds of small businesses have been opening up across Ipswich, and I am proud that we are now ranked in the top 10 of areas in the country where the…06 Mar 2025HANSARDEnglish Football: Financial Sustainability and GovernanceIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner. No one in Ipswich is yet tired of reminding the world that we are now a premier league town. As I like to remind my…06 Mar 2025HANSARDPublic Procurement: Support for SMEs12. What steps he is taking to support small and medium-sized enterprises in public procurement.06 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)On the point about almost doubling the time of the so-called reflection period, I think we have been very fixated on the Committee, and rightly so, on the six-month limit for the…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)A lot of the conversations we have had in Committee have been about eliminating the lottery that exists in our healthcare system. What the hon. Gentleman is suggesting will be…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)To give the Committee a sense of clarity, is the hon. Gentleman saying he wants the finances to be in the public domain, so that if provision were to go down a private route,…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)The problem with the amendment, which has been mentioned before—I will not go as far as my hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley and say that it would essentially nullify the…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend for supporting that amendment. We have often debated the level of detail that should be set out in the Bill. I fully appreciate that she does not…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)On a point of order, Mr Dowd. I think my hon. Friend the Member for Spen Valley said that if amendment (a) and amendment 186 are agreed to, that will negate the need for amendment…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I completely hear everything my hon. Friend is saying, but we also to have accept that this is not like any other legislation. This is arguably one of the most seismic societal…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Potentially. There are certain words and clauses on which everyone will come to very different conclusions. This has been the case throughout the entire Committee process, which…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Harris. I will speak specifically to amendment 50. I fully appreciate and accept the points made on a number of occasions…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Essentially, the amendment would require that if a person is autistic or has a learning disability, they must be given accessible information and sufficient time to consider it.…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Upcoming amendment 339 to clause 4 addresses that specific point. The hon. Gentleman has been asked this a number of times today, but would he be satisfied if that amendment was…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)My hon. Friend makes a powerful point, but I would gently point out, as has been said already this afternoon, that the conversations between doctor and patient will not be that…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)My hon. Friend makes the case that some people will not be given the full range of medical options available to them. Presumably, though, the amendment would limit that even…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I apologise for the length of this intervention, Mrs Harris. The central point is that we have to recognise that this is an incredibly important piece of legislation and there is…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Just to be absolutely clear for everyone in the room, and in case I was not specific enough, if that terminal illness is a result of the eating disorder, rather than, say, of that…25 Feb 2025