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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)Where does it specify that? I know we are going to debate that subject later, but right now there is nothing that gives me assurance that those people will be excluded. Unless…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I give way to my hon. Friend.11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I understand that perfectly well. On the idea of not giving people assisted dying, as the Bill stands, the category also includes people who decide to stop eating or taking…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I appreciate where the right hon. Member is coming from—I sincerely do. It comes back to the heart of the issue around capacity. We heard from the psychiatrist—her name escapes…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I support the amendment for a number of reasons. I have a huge amount of experience of dealing with women, domestic violence and prisons. The first time I came to this House was…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I give way to the hon. Gentleman first.11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)At what stage will we know how the amendments that my hon. Friend proposes have an impact on clause 1? If we make amendments later in the Bill, how will that have an impact on the…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)To go back to the point about multiple opportunities and capacity, my understanding from this morning’s Guardian is that an amendment has been tabled—it was mentioned earlier; I…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)The Minister makes an important point. I just want to understand something. He speaks on behalf of the Government and says that the Mental Capacity Act is an adequate legal base…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)This whole conversation has taught me that we are not on top of the Mental Capacity Act or the conversation about ability, which is why it is so important to have these…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I do agree. I also want to push back on the idea that it happens fairly regularly. I would welcome my hon. Friend the Member for Spen Valley giving us the evidence of where it…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)My understanding, when it concerns eating disorders and anorexia—let me get this right: are hon. Members trying to equate new clause 1 with that condition?11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)My understanding, which comes from Chelsea Roff, was that that happened specifically in places such as Oregon and California, but I am happy to revisit that. Coming back to the…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I have tabled an amendment to a later clause that talks specifically to that. The word “only” needs to be removed. We have seen this in Oregon, which I will come to later. We…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for his intervention, but we are not here legislating on anorexia; we are here legislating on the option of assisted death. I am trying to understand where…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I think that the hon. Member’s intervention responds to some of the points of the right hon. Member for North West Hampshire. We have heard a lot about the equivalence of endings…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I will take this intervention and then address both points.11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I know the right hon. Member speaks with a huge amount of experience. I am very new to the subject, but I know that the evidence from the psychiatrist was very certain—not “may…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I know that my hon. Friend comes from a mental health background and has worked as a professional in this area. I absolutely agree that we need to strengthen the Bill, which is…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)This amendment is an attempt to have that conversation and to strengthen the concepts that we are debating. That is the whole point of the Committee. As my hon. Friend the Member…11 Feb 2025