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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)My hon. Friend is right, but the point I am trying to come back to is to do with those people who feel a burden; wherever they feel a burden, somebody is benefiting from that,…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am happy to give way if my hon. Friend wants to elaborate.12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)The hon. Member makes an important point. That is precisely why we need to have a conversation to ascertain that autonomy, which is what this comes back to—the whole purpose of…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am sure my hon. Friend did not mean to suggest it in that way, but I feel slightly taken aback by the questioning of whether I understand the importance of this. I remind hon.…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)Let me finish. Perhaps my hon. Friend did not mean to question whether I understand and appreciate it, but it suggests to me, does anybody? Yes, we heard witnesses. We heard…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am grateful that we have been able to have this conversation as we have done. I share my hon. Friend’s concern. Equally, I am also concerned that we may now not have a judge’s…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for his valuable intervention. He speaks from his personal experience, and this place and this debate are richer for having those experiences shared. It…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)If we are talking about welfare, I would have thought that this Bill would have included welfare checks, which are absolutely crucial. My definition of welfare encompasses the…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)I appreciate the clarification and the explanation. I do not feel that having doctors doing this is a contradiction of this Bill at all, because if we go by the letter of the Bill…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)If we make philosophical and idealistic arguments, we will not be able to legislate on anything. Philosophically, there are people in this House who wear red, blue, green or the…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)It would be if we were making treatment equitable, but if we apply the test of legality, and this is about pain—we have already seen the amendments tabled by the hon. Member for…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)Does my hon. Friend share my frustration that when the Minister says, “This is the Government’s position,” he says so in the absence of an equality assessment or impact…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I note that the Minister used the word “treatment” twice, but we are not talking about a treatment; we are talking about assisted death. I think someone mentioned earlier that it…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)The hon. Gentleman clearly has more recent experience of prisons than I have—thankfully. In closing, I will be supporting his amendments to protect people who are vulnerable in…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I do not have any comparable situations; this is uncharted territory.11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)The idea that it is the fundamental denial of a human right is not quite correct. We are talking about the denial of a provision in a Bill that has not come into law. It is a…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)Yes, I think there should be a deprivation of that final act, because there are vulnerabilities with that prisoner while they are inside a prison. What they need is not an option…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I am still having that debate in my head, and I am not convinced. I will not digress—I will come to the point—but there is a conversation about whether it is “treatment”,…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)Absolutely—we will come back to that conversation.11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I beg to differ on the wording that my hon. Friend just used. It actually makes my point. As it stands, if I were an insulin-dependent diabetic—and I have been so on three…11 Feb 2025