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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fifth sitting)We cannot have things both ways. I have re-read amendment 436 and I am not convinced that the issue is the drafting. It is very clear: “If complications occur as a result of the…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fifth sitting)I absolutely agree and share those concerns. This is important. I appreciate that we have had this debate for many days now. Is this a healthcare intervention? Is it a treatment?…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fifth sitting)I rise to speak in support of amendment 465, tabled by the hon. Member for East Wiltshire. It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Reigate, who has made some powerful…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fifth sitting)On a point of order, Mr Dowd. I wish to apologise to you and to Committee members, as I now have to leave. This is not something I want to do, but I have to leave because my…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fifth sitting)I respectfully point out that the Minister says that it is not for him to make interpretations and that he has not got the clinical expertise. I genuinely appreciate that, but I…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fourth sitting)I am genuinely grateful for my hon. Friend’s intervention, because I do not want the Committee—or our constituents—to feel that there is an equivalence. There is not. People who…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fifth sitting)This is a genuine question because I continue to struggle with this. What kinds of complications would we envisage if a lethal drug is being administered to a patient who has…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-fifth sitting)My hon. Friend is making an important speech. He talked about percentages earlier. Is he aware of a study in the Netherlands that concluded that 21 people—18% of the cases in the…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)I appreciate that, under the new clause, the panel can hear from anybody. Can the Minister confirm that the panel is unable, unlike a mental health tribunal, to summon people to…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)The Minister is being generous with her time. I just want to confirm that the Bill does not require the social worker to be a palliative care specialist. Am I right in thinking…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-second sitting)The hon. Lady is making a powerful point. I refer back to the point on jury trials. When we have criminal trials and jury trials, they go through not every single thing in…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-second sitting)It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Reigate, who takes the record for being on her feet the longest in this Committee.12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-second sitting)She beats my record for sure. I assure the Committee that my comments on new clause 17(a) will be brief in comparison with my previous speech. Yesterday, my hon. Friend the Member…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-second sitting)My understanding is that, at the mental health tribunal, a person would be entitled to legal representation, which would be an officer of the court or a lawyer, so the bar is very…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-second sitting)My hon. Friend is making very important points. Is he aware that Professor Mark Elliott, one of the UK’s leading professors of public law and a former chair of the Cambridge law…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)Does the hon. Member share my concern that the Bill does not say that the panel can call people and ask them to swear under oath, unlike a mental health tribunal?12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)I want to understand and clarify something. The hon. Gentleman said earlier that the commissioner is sitting as a judge, but my understanding is that the commissioner is not…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)What the hon. Gentleman has said creates another concern for me. If we do have a judge, and if the expectation is that they sit in a judicial capacity, does that not raise…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)I want to speak to amendment (c) to new schedule 2, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Lowestoft. The amendment requires members of the panel to have undertaken training in…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)I am happy to give way to my hon. Friend, the sponsor of the Bill. I am really pleased that she accepted the previous amendments. I do not know whether she will accept this one.12 Mar 2025