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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)Under the Bill as presented on Second Reading, the Secretary of State would have to report to Parliament on how the assisted dying system was functioning, but they would do so…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)I beg to move amendment 452, in clause 35, page 21, line 30, leave out from “must” to end of line 31 and insert “every 12 months after the passing of this Act—” This amendment…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)I was talking about amendments 450 and 451 and explaining why we should take an approach that involves understanding who the people who access assisted dying are, where they live…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)I will re-read it. It is, “including where the person is in an intimate or family relationship with that other person”. The “family relationship”, I think, means that it is…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for her explanation, which was very good. I do not have time to go away and think more about it from a legal perspective, because I have only just heard her…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for her detailed explanation. She makes sense—I would not want to restrict that either. Perhaps she is entirely correct—no doubt she has researched it…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)May I thank the hon. Member for Harrogate and Knaresborough for sharing something so deeply personal? I am sure I speak on behalf of the whole Committee in wishing his mum well…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)Does the hon. Lady agree that banning advertising also mitigates the issue of advertising to young people? She mentioned young people and suicide from a social media perspective.…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)That is the exact point I was about to raise. Is another amendment needed to ensure that providers of this service are not given more money if a patient goes through the process…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)I rise to speak to amendment (b) to amendment 518, and amendment (b) to amendment 520. Although I appreciate that my hon. Friend the Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge is not…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)Amendments 450 and 451 were tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for York Central. Let me first set out broadly what the amendments would do. They would mean that the reports of…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-eighth sitting)My hon. Friend says that this will be explicitly commissioned. I completely agree with everything he has said, but this will be a newly designed service by definition, so will…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-eighth sitting)Absolutely. As a former commissioner, I am very familiar with commissioning; I commissioned millions of pounds’ worth of services across Bradford when I was in the NHS. The…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-eighth sitting)It is interesting to follow the hon. Member for Richmond Park, because I rise to speak to amendment 537, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley. The amendment goes…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-ninth sitting)I beg to move amendment 450, in clause 34, page 20, line 33, at end insert— “(1A) The relevant Chief Medical Officer must produce an annual equality impact assessment of access to…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-eighth sitting)I stopped myself intervening on my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland Central; I had lots of questions, and he has confused me even more. He referred to the provision in clause…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe former chair of my local trust, Bradford teaching hospitals NHS foundation trust, Dr Max Mclean, has today secured whistleblowing protection for himself in a landmark victory.…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-seventh sitting)Perfect. I thank my hon. Friend—I like it when we get to amendments that are supported. Amendment 447 would literally change the word “may” to “must” in clause 30. The first four…19 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-seventh sitting)Amendment 447 was tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for York Central; I also speak in support of amendment 523, which was tabled by the hon. Member for East Wiltshire and…19 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-seventh sitting)I thank the hon. Member for East Wiltshire, who has raised some concerns for me. I rise to speak in support of the amendments, but also to raise some points. I share the hon.…19 Mar 2025