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HANSARDProtection of Children (Digital Safety and Data Protection) BillIt is a point of order. Madam Deputy Speaker, I wonder if you could give us guidance as to whether we actually have the right Minister responding to this Bill. If there were…07 Mar 2025HANSARDProtection of Children (Digital Safety and Data Protection) BillThe hon. Member for Whitehaven and Workington (Josh MacAlister), from the far and beautiful north-west, has made an extremely strong case for the original Bill that he envisaged…07 Mar 2025HANSARDProtection of Children (Digital Safety and Data Protection) BillI am not convinced that the guidance created by this Bill will be any more authoritative than that created by the NSPCC or by Internet Matters. The point I was making was not…07 Mar 2025HANSARDProtection of Children (Digital Safety and Data Protection) BillAs the hon. Lady says, the hon. Member for Whitehaven and Workington (Josh MacAlister) has done an enormous amount of work, and it is obviously desirable for the Government to act…07 Mar 2025HANSARDProtection of Children (Digital Safety and Data Protection) BillI was going to come on to that later, but my hon. Friend is completely right.07 Mar 2025HANSARDProtection of Children (Digital Safety and Data Protection) BillAs I said at the start of my speech, I lament the dithering and delay by the previous Government, too. There were attempts by Back Benchers—and I was one for the last two years of…07 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I rise briefly to oppose all four amendments, which seem to completely ignore the reality of what it is like to receive a terminal diagnosis and then die. In truth, from the…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)On a point of order, Mrs Harris. I am sorry to raise this again, but I think my hon. Friend might not be on point. Amendment 56 is about detention under the Mental Health Act, not…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I want to be clear, because the hon. Lady and I have exchanged views on this issue: my recollection from reading the briefing—I am happy to go back to it—is that, in those nine…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I understand where my hon. Friend is coming from. To give us fair warning, if the Committee votes the amendment down, how will he portray that publicly? Will he say to the public…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)As I understand it, I do not think if someone is donating an organ that they do actually have to see a psychiatrist; they have to see somebody who is an appropriately trained…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I completely agree. We have to strike a balance here. The point I am making is that, within an envelope of six months, 42 days is far too long, so I am afraid that I flatly oppose…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)They did not have capacity.05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)My interpretation of what the hon. Member for Spen Valley said is that, as long as the service is available on the NHS, it is up to me whether I go private. In such circumstances,…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)Scanning back through my experience of the health service, I do not remember ever having to show my ID, whatever the procedure or medical service. I do not remember showing ID to…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)Maybe I was not clear: it depends on the disease. For example, the median survival range for pancreatic cancer is six to 12 months, because it does not exhibit symptoms; people…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)Can my hon. Friend not see that, as the hon. Member for Rother Valley said, the amendment is based on what could be construed as an offensive assumption: that doctors otherwise…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I depends on the disease, but many people will struggle with, for example, breast cancer for five years, go through repeated rounds of chemotherapy and undergo terrible operations…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)On a point of order, Mrs Harris. I do not think that the amendment is actually about qualifications or training. It is about the removal of certain assessments.05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I apologise for having arrived ever so slightly late, Mr Efford. In the Minister’s view, is it conceivable that he or any future Minister—or, indeed, the current or any future…04 Mar 2025