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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)The hon. Gentleman said it would be rich for people to say that capacity cannot be assessed. That is not the case. I am not convinced about that, and I am not sure, from the…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Does the hon. Member agree that the amendment ultimately aims to provide clarity, and that clarity ultimately leads to safety?26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I will pick up on some of the points to which my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud referred, given his expertise. We heard from three senior psychiatrists during the evidence…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)My hon. Friend makes a very valid point. Another issue that we have not got to yet, but that we will be looking at, is the doctors who do not want to take part in this process. We…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. I will be speaking to that in the next group of amendments, so I do not want to go through it in detail now, but I absolutely accept…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Apologies. My hon. Friend is right that those were different situations, but I remind him of the evidence that we heard from Dr Jamilla, for example. I am glad that he reminded me…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Will my hon. Friend give way?26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)My hon. Friend is saying that that will take two years. The MCA, which has been implemented over 20 years, is misunderstood. Does he not see the risk of two years? This is new…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Not full stop.26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend about that in most cases, but in nine of the 10 cases that went to court, young girls were found to have capacity, but their treatment was…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)My hon. Friend is making a very important speech. Members have alluded to the provision in the Bill that the patient would be present and would potentially have an option to be…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree that the GMC writes this in detail for the purposes of treatment? The Bill is not about treatment, so therefore there is a difference in its very nature.26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Building on the intervention by my hon. Friend the Member for Ashford, in most cases where life-support machines are switched off, by definition people are being supported to stay…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I thank the Minister for giving way for what might not be my last intervention. Everybody agrees that the legislation is new—it is not something that we have done before—so have…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)That is not what I am trying to get to here. Maybe there is some confusion on my part; I will make it clear as I carry on. The issue is that people already know that assisted…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Surely all medical codes of practice explicitly or implicitly bar doctors from raising courses of action that they believe could unquestionably harm a patient. Does it therefore…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)It is an honour to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Bexleyheath and Crayford. I rise to speak to amendment 8, which stands in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I agree that that is what the evidence shows us, and there are many concerns in other jurisdictions as well. I will come back to that distinction.26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I am not sure that the amendment would be that kind of gag clause, so I disagree. If a patient says, “Give me all the options to bring an end to this,” the judgment of the doctor…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Unfortunately, I do not agree. I do not even agree with the term “gag clause”, which has been used a few times now. From where I stand, this is not a gag clause; it is an…26 Feb 2025