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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)This touches on some of the evidence given by Mr Ruck Keene, particularly around the best interests decision. From my reading of this legislation, it is very clear that there is…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)Can I clarify what the hon. Member is proposing by introducing a separate test for people accessing assisted dying? Say an individual is on a respirator at the end of their life.…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q Dr Richards, in the light of your research, could you say a little bit more about the weight that individuals dying place on the importance of autonomy and how that is weighed…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q Professor Owen, can I probe a little more something that you raised before—the interaction of potential impairment, potential family dynamics and so on in a way that is not…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q Professor Hoyano, the Bill would establish offences relating to coercion, pressure and so on. In the processes set out, there are a number of checkpoints, for want of a better…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixth sitting)Q Mr Greenwich, we are minded that as well as passing really good legislation we want to get public confidence behind this. We have heard a level of concern from disabled people’s…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q I have a question for Dr Richards. I note from your biography that you have done work studying the phenomenon of old age rational suicide. I noted your comments before about…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q Pat, if the Bill, as it is currently drafted, had been in place in your family’s situation, what difference would that have made to your family’s experience? Pat Malone: In all…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q I have a question for Mr Malone. The Bill as drafted talks about the commencement period and how quickly it would commence in the UK if Parliament passed it. There have been…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q My question is for Dr Price as well, please. We heard in the week from the chief medical officer earlier, who said that he was “relieved” that this Act based capacity on the…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q It is late, and I am far from being an expert on Welsh devolution, but I want to ask Professor Lewis a question, not least because we have not come to him for a little while.…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)In contrast to the requirements that would be in this Bill, which would require that assessment to be made. Professor House: You are introducing the idea that this Bill has more…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q To clarify, you asked to see them—that, presumably, would be good practice—but there is nothing in law that requires that on those decisions at the moment. Professor House: At…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q Widening my questions to Mr Robinson and Professor House, you talked a bit about capacity, and about coercion and the detection of it in life-or-death decisions, which clearly…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)I suppose I am interested in your observations of the outcomes of citizens’ juries. I think we have all seen bits of polling, but that is not necessarily polling of individuals…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q Could I ask Dr Mullock another question? I was interested in what you said about your involvement with citizens’ juries, both here and elsewhere. As we as a Committee and…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Yes, I am asking whether that is the case. Professor House: I think the problem with this Bill is what assessment it expects to be made that does not cover the ground that I have…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q I have a question for Baroness Falkner. I want particularly to probe the socioeconomic duty. What is your assessment of that as it relates to agency and control at the end of…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q Dr Porter, we heard this morning from some colleagues from Australia, reflecting on assisted dying options five years after they was introduced there. I specifically asked them…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)No.29 Jan 2025