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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Mr Amin, given your expertise in representing these cases in the court, can I ask you for your view around the Mental Capacity Act issue regarding eating disorders and other…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Can I be explicit on the palliative care point? We have heard concerns from some in palliative care provision that there is anxiety that if we introduce this in the UK, there is…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q I think around 650 people with a terminal illness currently take their own lives a year. If we see a success with the Bill, I wonder whether there would be a reduction of that…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Spen Valley. Having agreed to extend the time on Thursday to hear devolution issues and from the Royal College of General Practitioners…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q We have heard from two witnesses—you, Sir Nicholas, and Dr Ahmedzai from the earlier panel—on the question of judicial oversight. While we have you here, Sir Max and Mr Ruck…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q Clause 35 introduces a duty on the Secretary of State to report on a periodic basis to Parliament on the accessibility and quality of palliative care. As I understand it, that…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)indicated assent. Dr Green: With regard to the specific questions, no, I do not believe that a doctor has to be a specialist in the individual disease at stake to advise a patient…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q So you would be happy if there was an explicit prohibition on recommendation. Dr Green: I am reluctant to make a statement on that in this forum. We will go away and discuss it,…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q I am going to try again. Some people advocate for a ban on this issue being discussed at all, which we have heard your answers on. A different version of that is a ban on any…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Sorry—I meant the provision of information for someone. Dr Green: The provision of information would be very useful, because in a situation where a doctor was unwilling to have an…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q Moving on to the next issue, you have both spoken fairly clearly about—or advocated against—having an absolute ban on doctors discussing or raising the issue. I want to tease…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q I want to cover two areas. I will start with the current law. I am interested in the position that doctors are currently in, both regulatorily and around the current law. The…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q I have one follow-up on that. At the moment, we are aware that there are instances across the NHS every day where people make decisions around refusing the treatment that would…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q Sir Chris, you mentioned having time to ensure that people are appropriately trained, and the Bill includes provisions for the Secretary of State to make orders around required…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Money)Will my hon. Friend give way?22 Jan 2025HANSARD Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Money)On that point, will the hon. Gentleman give way?22 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (First sitting)I, like you, Sir Roger, hope that we can spend the next five or six weeks in the spirit of collaboration and that we do not get bogged down in procedural wrangling. We need to…21 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (First sitting)I agree with the comments of the hon. Member for Harrogate and Knaresborough. The hon. Member for East Wiltshire said at the start that the purpose of this Committee was not to…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Social Media AccountsI agree that legislative action has been necessary, as the Online Safety Act shows, and indeed, there are provisions on this in the current data Bill. The issue is that there is a…13 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Social Media AccountsI beg to move, That this House has considered e-petition 661407 relating to children’s social media accounts. It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Twigg. It is a…13 Jan 2025