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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I am happy to take an intervention from my hon. Friend the Member for Luton South and South Bedfordshire, and then I will come to my hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley.11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for that intervention and he makes an important point.11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)My hon. Friend makes my case for me. If that person says, “It’s none of your business, but I have so much pain,” at that point, automatically, as we naturally do as human beings—11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)Given my hon. Friend’s expertise, does he anticipate JR being allowed in the panel setting? If so, would it be before the death or after? Can the decision by the panel be…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)That was not my understanding; I will come back to that point, because I am sure I have references to where that has been talked about. There is also the question of whether…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)The hon. Member for East Wiltshire makes an important point. Where are the opportunities? When doctors are doing the assessment. The other issue that speaks to me is the question…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twentieth sitting)I absolutely agree that life does not work like that. Life is very complicated and that is why I want the conversation to happen. My hon. Friend referred to amendment 21, which we…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 (Twenty First sitting)I absolutely agree that we have not thought this through enough, because that process has not been laid out. We really need to think about these potential eventualities. When such…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I think that by making some progress I will answer that question. Turning to Sir James Munby’s question about what, if any, public funding arrangements there will be for the…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)Part 2 of five, I might add, Mrs Harris. I rise to oppose new clause 14 from my hon. Friend the Member for Spen Valley. The clause would create the post of a voluntary assisted…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I rise to speak in support of amendments 305 and 306, in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for York Central. Under amendment 305, a doctor would have to explain what effects…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 completely agree. That is the case in the Bill, which raises concerns. Finally, Parliament needs to get back into the habit of holding powerful commissioners accountable. There…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for pointing that out, and I will look at it, but that was not my understanding. There are multiple reasons to oppose new clause 21. With it, the Bill will…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)This relates to my point, Mrs Harris, I promise you. DNA evidence subsequently proved that Andrew Malkinson was indeed innocent, yet he was allowed to remain in jail. Members of…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s intervention, but I reject the facetiousness of his point. Let me speak to the issue of unconscious bias in relation to the proposal before us.…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I disagree with my hon. Friend. Subconscious bias operates in society; this is not about being held to account. People are not doing these things deliberately, but because they…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)Yes, fortunately not. I am not convinced that the clause covers it. I will go back to that, but I have just read it because the hon. Member for Solihull West and Shirley raised it…11 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty First sitting)I am not questioning people’s integrity; I am putting it to the Committee that people have biases. We all have subconscious biases. We have things that we like; we know that that…11 Mar 2025