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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)No, I am in a flow, so I am just going to keep going. I am mainly rebutting at this point, and I do not want to open the debate that much wider. Invariably, we already have…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)I am going to continue this point, if I may. The hon. Member for East Wiltshire asked what the purpose of the panel is. As is set out very clearly in new clause 21, it is about…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)I thank the hon. Member for that point, but when someone cannot describe any version of safeguards that would be possible, and in the light of some of the other conversations we…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)The hon. Gentleman says that the way to proceed would have been to strengthen, through amendment, the existing High Court safeguard. I may have missed them, but I cannot see…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)rose—12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-second sitting)My hon. Friend is making a thoughtful speech. Has he had the chance to consider the situation with mental health tribunals that I mentioned yesterday, which usually do not take…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-second sitting)I am not going to pursue that exact line of argument. The point of discussion, and the point of the vote, is whether we think this proposal, which, to me, is robust—the panel…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-second sitting)The hon. Lady sketches out a very short exchange. Does she think that we should specify in primary legislation the exact nature of interactions in these sorts of matters…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for engaging on this issue, but this is not about the Mental Capacity Act; it is about the Mental Health Act 1983 and whether someone would be sectioned and…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship this afternoon, Ms McVey. I feel that we are dancing on the head of a pin, but I oppose the amendment. Members across the debate…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)The hon. Member is discussing amendment 201, but there is also amendment 422, which indicates that the professional should make inquiries of other healthcare professionals who…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)Does the hon. Member share my concern that the wording in medical records has no duration over a person’s lifetime? For example, consulting all the medical records of someone in…11 Mar 2025HANSARDPrison Capacity16. What steps her Department is taking to increase prison capacity.11 Mar 2025HANSARDPrison CapacityThe prison capacity crisis that this Government inherited has resulted in persistent offenders not feeling the deterrent effect of a custody option being realistically available.…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)Yes, I do. I recognise the importance of independent assessment for prognosis and capacity. However, particularly with the issue of coercion, healthcare is a team sport, as anyone…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Roger. I rise to speak to a couple of the amendments. Amendment 348 is likely unnecessary. I would have been minded to support…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for giving way at the end of an excellent speech. Does he agree that the provision in new schedule 2 that allows the commissioner, who would be a sitting or…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I fear that the point the hon. Lady is making relates to before her amendment 459 was accepted. Does she not agree that by accepting amendment 459, we have guarded against the…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)This is a similar point to the one I made before: amendment 459, which we have just passed, means that, in the scenario that the hon. Lady describes, the second independent doctor…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I was not going to speak to this clause, but I feel I must rebut some of the points made, which are clearly incorrect. The hon. Member for Reigate asks how many further opinions…11 Mar 2025