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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)The Minister is being very generous with his time. I want to understand the idea that someone might say that they do not want a written transcript, when everybody in our country…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I would like to add that there is nothing about female genital mutilation in anybody’s religion. It is not a religious belief; it is cultural, and it is actually child abuse. That…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)If that is an issue, then it is my understanding, being new to Bill Committees, that it is not because the provision is poorly drafted, but because the outcome is not clear. Can…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I rise briefly to put on the record my disappointment. In our debates today on various amendments, we have discussed how some patients could see doctors’ language as a suggestion…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I hear what the right hon. Member says, and I get his point, but we already have lists of specialists. With Choose and Book, for example, although it is for treatments, the NHS…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)The hon. Member makes a valid point. That brings us to a very important question: do we wait for something to have happened? In this instance, people will have died. If we were…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Bexleyheath and Crayford. I rise to speak to amendment 287, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for York Central. Clause…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)The Minister referred to a patient not wanting to keep a written record. How does that fare if there is a potential issue of negligence later on? Is that not a requirement of…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Thank you, Mr Dowd. Before I carry on, may I just add to that? I did refer to that and I appreciate the right hon. Gentleman’s point of order, but these things speak to this…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I rise to speak to my amendment 277, which would add a new subsection to clause 5. Like my amendment 276, it would alter the time that must elapse between a person receiving a…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Thank you, Mr Dowd. I will not oppose clause 4 stand part, but I put on the record my disappointment that we did not go further by putting in the safeguards that we had the option…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I rise to speak to amendments 288 and 295 tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell), both of which would improve the quality of records kept about…04 Mar 2025HANSARD Gaza: BBC CoverageI thank the Secretary of State for getting to grips with this issue so quickly and acknowledging that what happened on 7 October and what happened subsequently in Gaza is of huge…27 Feb 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseMy question is slightly different from that of my hon. Friend the Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell), but it speaks to the NHS. The Financial Times reported that there has…27 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)It is the right and proper thing to do to give options, but we are talking about vulnerability. We have had the debate a few times now about people with vulnerability, and we…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I do acknowledge that, but ultimately I am a Member of Parliament for my constituency of Bradford West, and we have a doctor who has been doing research with its communities. I…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Given what my hon. Friend has just said—that he accepts the premise of my hon. Friend the Member for Bexleyheath and Crayford that the doctor would have to assist—can he help me…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)How does my hon. Friend respond to not one, not two, but multiple witnesses, including the Royal College of Psychiatrists, saying, absolutely contrary to what he is saying, that…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Will the hon. Gentleman give way?26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way; he has been generous with his time. I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman has seen the evidence from Alex Ruck Keene KC on mental…26 Feb 2025