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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I understand what the hon. Member for Broxtowe is trying to achieve, but I believe that her amendments are unnecessary. “Demonstrably” is a word that is commonly used in British…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I am afraid that that is not actually correct. If my hon. Friend is willing to look at my amendments—I appreciate that he might not have got to them yet—he will see that one of…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I am very pleased my hon. Friend raised that issue, because I was about to come to the practical difficulties that this presents, for exactly that reason. As he rightly pointed…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I was not necessarily saying what the hon. Member said that I said—that all homeless people are the same. However, it is the case that, for rough sleepers in particular, a number…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)indicated dissent.11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I was about to come on to the fact that those questions would indeed be asked through the assessment that takes place. As my hon. Friend knows—we have had a long discussion about…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I understand my hon. Friend’s point, but we are talking about people who do not have much time. We have to remember throughout this debate that we are talking about people who…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s kind words, but he will know that the foundation of our beliefs stretches from Magna Carta through to Mill and is based on a legal notion that I…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)I have to confess that I am a little confused by the evidence to which my hon. Friend refers. Can he confirm that it is perfectly possible for me to be diagnosed with a terminal…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I want to clarify what the Royal College of Psychiatrists actually said, because I realise that the hon. Member is relying a lot on that evidence. In an exchange with me in their…11 Feb 2025HANSARD Israel and the Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesDoes the Minister accept that we got here after 16 months of weakness and vacillation by both this Government and the previous Government? As we contemplate the hundreds of…06 Feb 2025HANSARDAstraZenecaWhat a shame the Minister has chosen to substitute aggression for what should be regret for what is, whichever way he paints it, obviously a terrible failure of negotiation. I…03 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q Professor Hoyano, I am interested to explore your views on the third layer. I understand your view about the Court of Protection, but we have heard in previous evidence, not…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q My question is to Dr Richards. Obviously health service medics are dealing with end-of-life situations at the moment—they are withdrawing treatment or declining to give…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q Thanks very much, Mrs Harris, and welcome, everyone. Liz, you and I have met before. I am very conscious that during the last couple of days of evidence, we have heard from all…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q We have heard a lot in evidence over the last two or three days about how the doctor should approach the initial conversation and whether doctors should be allowed to initiate a…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q Julie, you said that you got to a point where Guy said to you that he had made his mind up. Had he made his mind up after conversations with doctors about what his options were?…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixth sitting)Doctors? Professor Blake: In Western Australia, which was the second jurisdiction to introduce voluntary assisted dying—30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q I also want to explore this issue of capacity a little further with Dr Price, because I share my colleague’s slight confusion. You talked about a percentage who wish to hasten…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixth sitting)Q But how did you approach that in the legislation? Is it silent as to what doctors should do, or does it have a prescription? Alex Greenwich: Yes. In our legislation we make it…30 Jan 2025