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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)The right hon. Gentleman is making a powerful speech. In response to the comment by my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich, people can have, and will have, an incidental benefit…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)In response to the intervention of my hon. Friend, we are here to make the Bill as safe as possible, but this is a new thing. When the Bill returns to the House, I have to make a…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)I want to understand the Minister’s point about multiple words. We have the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, referring to both coercion and pressure, and undue…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)The hon. Lady has made some important points. I repeat something I said yesterday in response to another Member: the word “coercion” and the idea of encouragement were not even in…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)May I take the hon. Member back to the point of clause 24, and the issue of suicide and the terminology there? Perhaps the Minister could respond as well, although I am not sure…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)I have a concern about what the Minister says. As one psychiatrist put it, the Bill is very novel and untested. The MCA has not been tested. Now the Government say that this will…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)Does the hon. Lady share my concern? My understanding is that, in normal parliamentary business, if the Government announce any changes to the law in the press first, they are…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend, but I feel that the point is being missed. It is true that there is no framework, but for somebody to get to this point in the first instance they need to…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Lady. Just to put it out there, to begin with on amendment 23, the Court of Appeal, in the case of “Re T (Adult: Refusal of Medical…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)I would like to hope that that would never happen; I have a huge love of the NHS and of the people I know in it who make decisions every day, particularly given all the cuts—even…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for her powerful intervention. She is right: that was the article I mentioned. Reading about such stories does have a profound impact.12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)No, I was talking about another hon. Member, not the Minister. We already have laws to protect people from domestic violence, but that does not mean that they necessarily access…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)My hon. Friend makes a valid point. There has already been a test case, and the Court of Appeal has ruled that undue influence is relevant to medical decisions and that doctors…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)I have to respectfully disagree with the right hon. Member that this is a settled position. I also challenge, on the record, what the Minister said. I struggle to understand how…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)I share my hon. Friend’s concerns about the Bill not being tightened and fit for purpose. We cannot afford for those people to slip through the net. One woman’s death is one too…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)I am trying to understand the expertise my hon. Friend is speaking from. Was he a criminal barrister?12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)The principle of statutory interpretation means that by mentioning one thing, we exclude others, so it is my understanding that having the terms coercion and pressure in the Bill…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)To build on that, I referred to the Court of the Appeal earlier, but when it comes to someone giving their organs, I think from the age of 12 or 13—I will try to find the…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)The hon. Member makes a valid point: it could be an absolutely autonomous decision. In an ideal world, that is what we would like to get to, but we are not in an ideal world.12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)My hon. Friend makes a very important point—because if we visit this issue afterwards, that person is dead.12 Feb 2025