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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)I appreciate that. None the less, I will speak briefly to the amendment as I still have concerns. The amendment provides an absolutely necessary safeguard and I welcome the fact…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)Will my hon. Friend give way?12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)Will my hon. Friend give way on that point?12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)I will speak to amendment (b) to new schedule 2, but before I do, I will address some of what my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland Central just talked about. To clarify…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)If I may, Ms McVey, I will speak to the issue of the judicial oversight of the panel and the whole of new clause 21. I would like to understand something, and perhaps the Minister…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)We have heard before that the panel’s decision must be unanimous. However, I have tried looking in the Bill and it does not state that specifically. My understanding is that two…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)It is a majority vote, not unanimous.12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)The Minister mentions impartiality. As things stand, the doctors who take part in the process will have made the choice to do so. Would the same yardstick be applied to the panel,…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)I struggle to agree that there would be impartiality, because there are people who are committed, believe in, agree with or are advocates for assisted dying. Does that not raise a…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)The Minister is being very generous in giving way. I want to understand something. She says that the Official Solicitor is there to help with adults who lack capacity, but in the…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-third sitting)I appreciate the Minister’s position and am grateful for her explanation, but it does not address the central point, which is that nine girls were deemed not to have capacity.…12 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)Does the hon. Member share my concern that if a doctor refused somebody an assisted death because they thought there was some form of coercion, the door could be open for people…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)I have a couple of additional comments. We talked last week about the reflection periods. I referred to the fact that when even someone buys something from a shop, they have 28…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)No, that was not my implication. When referring to my hon. Friend’s remarks, I was speaking about a patient perhaps saying “It is none of your business” or that my hon. Friend was…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. There is a medical model and a social model of intervention. If I walk into a GP surgery with a really bad headache, I am prescribed…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)I will try to keep my remarks brief. I first speak to amendment 468, tabled by the hon. Member for Reigate, on the asking of the question why someone wants to have an assisted…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)Sorry, I will just finish my point. From a common sense perspective—I am not medically qualified—that situation should make me, as a human being, want to understand more. As a…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)Sorry, I will not give way until I have finished my point. I would like those conversations to be at least explored, which is why I support the amendment.11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)That opens up a whole different debate for me. Some clinicians will not sign up to this process and some will. That is a whole different debate, but I take the point that there…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I rise to speak to new clause 21, new clause 14, new clause 16, new schedule 2 and amendment (b) to new schedule 2. I will start with new clause 21—and have a break in between. I…11 Mar 2025