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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I will double check whether this is right, but the explanatory statement suggests that that is not the case. It says: “This amendment would require the assessing doctor to inform…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)Even if that is not what it says, and even if the explanatory statement is wrong, it is not appropriate for doctors to advise patients what they should do with their family. Yes,…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I am grateful, Chair, and I can take further interventions on any further points from the hon. Gentleman, but I will deal with that one. This is not a personal criticism of my…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I was expecting someone else to have spoken in support of amendment 296, but I will be very brief. The tone of the debate so far has been respectful, and it should continue to be…05 Mar 2025HANSARDCourts and Tribunals: Sitting DaysI have been in this House for only a few months, but I must admit that I am absolutely staggered by the chutzpah of Conservative Members—most have left, but when they were here—in…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I want to speak to amendment 57. I do not intend to press it to a vote, but I will explore whether and how the Bill could be improved in terms of the relationship between the two…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)The hon. Lady has set out the process, but I believe she may have missed an important juncture in the Bill. If there are any doubts as to capacity, then the person would be…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I will be brief. I will talk about my amendment 280, which I will not press to a vote. There remains an area that needs more exploring in this legislation—it has come up in…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)If the Government were to introduce legislation to expand the NHS’s role in how it undertakes operations in a certain area, would the hon. Member suggest that similar amendments…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)The point is that the amendment is not about the wider system; it is about a clinician’s individual decision making. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that that is a very different…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)Not only do I question the motives behind amendment 296 but its necessity is—to put it politely—mind-boggling. We have attempted to navigate a balance between ensuring that, when…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I am very sympathetic to the amendment and have thought long and hard about it. Can my hon. Friend explain to me, from his experience, but also from looking at the Bill and…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)The evidence that I have heard, both in Committee and from other sources, shows that the gagging clause leads to complete absurdities. Doctors feel completely unable to look after…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Much has been covered today, and the issue of capacity was debated at length when the Committee considered clause 1, but I do have some observations. I am sympathetic to the…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Yes, there are safeguards and mechanisms in the Bill to ensure that and to protect from a culture that would incentivise this practice.26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I have been listening to the argument in some detail. Is there not a danger here of trying to translate the dry words of clause 4 to the conversations that naturally happen…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)No, I am not going to, actually. I am taking my rights. My final point concerns section 1(4) of the Mental Capacity Act and the discarding of the principle about whether a…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)That was an intervention that I was grateful to take. I accept the point that there are dangers of a system that somehow incentivises this. That is why the Bill has to have such…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)But I am happy to take another, although I may come to regret it.26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)We are debating lots of different things now, rather than just clause 3. There is an issue as to whether in those cases the individuals were found to have capacity, but we are…26 Feb 2025