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HANSARDTerminally 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 (Fourth sitting)Sir Roger, can I ask about mainstream delivery?29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Could you talk us through eligibility with regard to neurodegenerative diseases, and whether you have in place any variations and considerations for things such as Parkinson’s…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q 196 Thank you all for coming. Clause 26 will create a new offence of coercion. In your view, is that offence correctly drawn? Is 14 years long enough as a deterrent? Professor…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q Thank you all for coming. We have had a lot of discussion over the last day or so about eligibility. I think it was Hospice UK that said, in evidence to the Health and Social…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q We have heard from earlier witnesses, particularly from other jurisdictions, that training is the key. Is it therefore your view that in guidelines, for example, specific…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q Lord Sumption, I heard an interview with you on the radio, I think before Christmas, in which you expressed doubts about the third layer at the High Court. We heard evidence…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q I may be speaking out of turn, but the sentiment of the House generally seems to be that there should be a third layer of supervision over the process. There are other…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q How would you seek to improve the Bill in order to make them eligible? Dr Hussain: I think it is really complex, isn’t it? The very existence of the Bill affects everyone who…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q You are clear, though, that doctors should be free to have an open discussion with their patients about the whole variety of possibilities or paths that may be available to them…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q In the run-up to Second Reading, we heard from some of the overseas experience that where there was effectively a gag clause on doctors, it was proving to be extremely…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q Professor, I want to test a little further the notion of a separate organisation that you mentioned. I can understand a separate discipline emerging, acquired by training, which…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Right, so professional judgment again—28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q I have been searching for parallels in current practice, and one that seemed close to me was if I wanted to donate an organ—say, a kidney—to a relative. As I understand it, a…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)I, too, support the amendment proposed by the hon. Member for Spen Valley, and in particular the addition of Jane Monckton-Smith. I have read her book; it is definitely worth a…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q I just want to clarify the referral issue. As I understand it—I may have it wrong—your 2013 guidance on medical practice and personal beliefs says that doctors should refer, in…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q I want to pursue that point a little with you, Dr Cox. My understanding is that your profession is already taking these decisions, or supporting patients to take these…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q I understand the BMA’s concern, but my concern is about saying, “Here’s a leaflet—you’re on your own,” or “You can get information from this place.” For somebody who is in…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q Understood. My other question is for all of you, but particularly Dr Clarke. You have mentioned autonomy a number of times. The Bill is trying to pass autonomy to the individual…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q Sorry to interrupt you, but I am conscious of the time. We heard this morning how vital training is; I think that is broadly accepted from a number of voices. I want to question…28 Jan 2025