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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I completely agree. That is the case in the Bill, which raises concerns. Finally, Parliament needs to get back into the habit of holding powerful commissioners accountable. There…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I either misheard my hon. Friend or did not understand his earlier point, so let me speak to the point he makes now. My understanding is that sectioning someone under the Mental…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I absolutely agree that we have not thought this through enough, because that process has not been laid out. We really need to think about these potential eventualities. When such…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)Part 2 of five, I might add, Mrs Harris. I rise to oppose new clause 14 from my hon. Friend the Member for Spen Valley. The clause would create the post of a voluntary assisted…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)That is the very point I am struggling with. Generally speaking, the GMC guidelines are absolutely right, and doctors are saving lives and making the person better. In this…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I will go into this in even greater detail in later speeches, but I will say now that although the process was not fit for purpose, Sir James Munby also says that this one is not…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)No, that was not my implication. When referring to my hon. Friend’s remarks, I was speaking about a patient perhaps saying “It is none of your business” or that my hon. Friend was…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. There is a medical model and a social model of intervention. If I walk into a GP surgery with a really bad headache, I am prescribed…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)I will try to keep my remarks brief. I first speak to amendment 468, tabled by the hon. Member for Reigate, on the asking of the question why someone wants to have an assisted…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I agree: there is not a judicial process, so to speak. There most definitely is not. As I make progress, I will outline my concerns about that very clearly. Let us take the second…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)That opens up a whole different debate for me. Some clinicians will not sign up to this process and some will. That is a whole different debate, but I take the point that there…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)I absolutely see where my hon. Friend is coming from and appreciate her concern, but we will have to agree to disagree as we have a difference of opinion. A subjective assessment…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)I agree. Sometimes it will be the simple thing of asking the question as a human being—among all the conversations that are happening, just stopping and asking why.11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)I respectfully disagree. I am making the case that there is a conversation to be had. Yes, there is informed choice but is my hon. Friend suggesting that the question should not…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)Sorry, I will not give way until I have finished my point. I would like those conversations to be at least explored, which is why I support the amendment.11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)Does the right hon. Gentleman want to intervene?11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I am genuinely trying to understand and would like my hon. Friend to clarify. He says that doctors generally do this anyway, but the difference is that, in this instance, somebody…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)Does the hon. Member share my concern that if a doctor refused somebody an assisted death because they thought there was some form of coercion, the door could be open for people…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)Sorry, I will just finish my point. From a common sense perspective—I am not medically qualified—that situation should make me, as a human being, want to understand more. As a…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)I absolutely agree that life does not work like that. Life is very complicated and that is why I want the conversation to happen. My hon. Friend referred to amendment 21, which we…11 Mar 2025