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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I will not test the patience of the Committee by repeating the Minister’s comments on amendments 197 and 198, but he is absolutely right that they relate to the duty imposed on…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Efford. The amendments relate to the initial discussions with medical practitioners, and it is important to highlight that…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I take the Minister’s comments on board. Will he agree to a conversation with me and with the right hon. Member for East Hampshire (Damian Hinds), who tabled amendment 368, to…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I agree that, under the provisions of the Bill, the doctor will have a duty to lay out options available to the patient, if they meet the eligibility criteria—absolutely. That is…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)Is my hon. Friend not concerned about the concept of conscientious objection? The BMA strongly opposes amendment 342, because it does not think doctors should be obligated to have…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)To be clear on the multidisciplinary approach, the point that I was making in that contribution was that that happens already. We are misrepresenting what goes on in current…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I will try to keep my comments as brief as possible because we have had another very thorough discussion. First, my amendment 424 is, as the Minister said, a simple drafting…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I just want to let the hon. Gentleman and the Committee know that I met my hon. Friend the Member for East Thanet last night, and I am delighted to support her amendment 108.04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)On amendment 413, from the right hon. Member from Plaid Cymru—with apologies, I will not embarrass myself by trying to pronounce the wonderful name of her constituency—I am very…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I am done.04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. As I have said, the BMA has been very clear that doctors should use their professional judgment. For example, if they had a patient…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for those important points. I reassure her, and possibly other Committee members, that I am minded to support amendment 341.04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I rise to speak briefly to my new clause 19, which refers to the recording of the preliminary discussion. It would require the practitioner to include in the medical records of…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I rise to speak to amendments 341, 338 and 412 together, and I welcome the debate on these important amendments. Choice is one of the key tenets of the Bill, primarily—but not…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I might be wrong, but my understanding is that a patient could ask for access to their medical records at any point. On the basis that new clause 19 requires the doctor to record…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 184, in clause 5, page 3, line 7, leave out “Schedule 1” and insert “regulations made by the Secretary of State”. This amendment provides that the form of…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I have nothing to add, other than to associate myself with the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland Central and those of the Minister. Question put, That the…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I have nothing to add.04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. Will he take note of my new clause 19, which is in this group and states that the preliminary discussion has to be recorded?04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I rise to support my amendments in this group, which seek to clarify the details that must be included, under regulations, in the first declaration, and the report that is…04 Mar 2025