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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)This group of amendments is consequential on new clause 8, which would create a single duty for the Secretary of State to consult before making regulations under various…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I have nothing further to add. Amendment 187 agreed to. Amendment made: 20, in clause 5, page 3, line 25, at end insert— “(4A) Regulations under subsection (3)(a) must specify…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I beg to move amendment 189, in clause 6, page 3, line 30, leave out “where a person makes a first declaration” and insert “in relation to the making of a first declaration by a…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)Amendment 419 provides that the co-ordinating doctor may witness the first declaration only if satisfied that a preliminary discussion of the kind mentioned in clause 4 has taken…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)This is a thought based on the comments by the hon. Member for Reigate. The issue of photographic ID is worth giving consideration. Photo ID is used in multiple settings for…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)You will be delighted, Chair, that I have nothing further to add. Amendment 189 agreed to. Amendments made: 190, in clause 6, page 3, line 31, leave out “at the same time as that…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I do not consider for one second that there is any ill intent behind the amendment, but I am slightly concerned about the language, which is what I think my hon. Friend the Member…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)The hon. Lady is making some interesting points, but would she agree that we are talking about not new patients, but existing patients who are already in their last few months of…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. If we think about some of the people we have met—the families who have lost loved ones to terminal illness and the patients who are…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)That has been a very useful discussion. I have nothing to add.05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I will do the easy bits first. As the Minister said, amendment 370 in my name is a drafting change to the definition of a psychiatrist, which is obviously very important. These…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)The hon. Lady is making a powerful speech, and I understand that the amendments come from a very good place, and a very strong and experienced one, but she just made the point…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)rose —05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I agree with every word the hon. Lady said, and—possibly like her—I have experience of working with people with eating disorders. However, clause 2 defines terminal illness as “an…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)My hon. Friend is making an important speech. Is he, like me, reassured that it is not just about capacity, but about someone’s clear, settled and informed wish? If someone is…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I apologise, but I thought my hon. Friend said that they did not have capacity.05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I have nothing to add, Mrs Harris.05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I congratulate my hon. Friend on tabling amendment 1 on the amendment paper—a lot has happened since he tabled that amendment, it is fair to say. I get the impression from the…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)To clarify, I think it is clear that the panel would include a psychiatrist and a social worker. I hope that reassures my hon. Friend.05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I am indeed happy to accept amendment 21 as well.05 Mar 2025