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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am very willing to address these border issues, which are incredibly important. The noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, specifically raised them in the context of the Isle of Man…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI was addressing the wider issue, the one that the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, was talking about. But it goes to those ordinarily resident in Scotland, who come to England for…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI will come to that question when I go through the points. The purpose of Clause 1(1)(c)—namely, that to qualify you have to be ordinarily resident in England and Wales and have…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillCan I just finish this sentence? On the tourism point, it invites the possibility that you can come and genuinely live here until you die in order to get an assisted death, and we…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI accept that completely. The reason the 12 months is here is to give some degree of assurance that the reason you are living here is not because of an assisted death but because…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am surprised to hear that. I will make inquiries, but I am almost sure that that will not be the case with this. The noble Lord, Lord Mackinlay, gave us an interesting tour…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I honestly think that is a smokescreen. The Bill says, in a way that the law has recognised time and again—because this Parliament has to make choices from time to time…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI do not know whether the noble Baroness has discussed with the Public Bill Office the BMA’s proposal in relation to this, which is that it is not a crime under the Suicide Act if…05 Dec 2025HANSARDArrangement of BusinessMy Lords, may I, as the sponsor of the Bill, express my profound gratitude to the usual channels for making what amounts to 10 additional days available for the Bill? That means…26 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillOn my noble friend’s first question, I have not dismissed all the amendments; I have accepted that we should look at some of them, and very many of the ones I am not accepting are…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThey have to be satisfied that the person is not being coerced. That means that they have to do the appropriate inquiries. If, for example, as the noble Lord was saying, they do…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIt will depend on the circumstances. If, for example, the doctor had a very severe doubt about whether somebody was being coerced, I would expect them to ask very many questions…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWith the greatest respect, the noble Baroness has missed the point. If, for example, a person says to the doctor, “I’m not telling you things”, the doctor can never be satisfied.…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am very grateful to my noble friend for mentioning that, because that is what was being whispered to me but I did not have the statistics. I am very grateful to him for…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillOf course, and I apologise for not answering it.21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillAs I understand it, Amendment 222, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Hollins, would establish a specialist service to provide psychological assessment and support and then…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI completely appreciate what the noble Baroness is saying. She is, in effect, repeating what she said with such force and articulateness before. My answer to that is that there…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThis is a new practice that every answer one gives, the person then responds by repeating their speech. So, if it is new, yes—21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI completely agree that the noble Lord and I might well not understand what people from different cultures would say, but the two doctors and a panel would have to understand that…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, first, I am sure that I will not be able to reach the high standard of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Chester, but I will try. Secondly, I do not think I am…21 Nov 2025