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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)I completely agree with the hon. Lady. We should not make the mistake of assuming that certain amendments will be accepted. Until there is a Division, we do not know what the Bill…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)As a new MP—there are many in the room today—I am still very much learning the process; we have to contend with not quite understanding how the full process works. In two years’…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)The hon. Member is absolutely right that the amendment would not make it easier for the clinician. My job is not to make it easier for the clinician to determine that someone is…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)I thank the right hon. Lady for that really helpful intervention. That is exactly the kind of advice that is extremely useful to us new MPs undertaking this process. I will have…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 23, in clause 1, page 1, line 19, after “coerced” insert “, unduly influenced”. This amendment would include the absence of undue influence for the making…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)That is an important point. Obviously, case law becomes quite important in this. Supporting someone’s decision is very different from encouraging someone who was not in the place…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)I do not think that we are trying to exempt something from the Suicide Act through the Bill; we are decriminalising something that is currently a criminal offence. Right now, it…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)I completely agree. It is important to recognise that different people will have different views on levels of coercion. I have already quoted some of the witnesses; I found it…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)I would like to understand why my hon. Friend thinks that diabetes could ever be considered reversible. It can be treated and managed, but surely we cannot turn back time.11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)Will the hon. Lady give way?11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I think that one of the points being made is the difference between something that is active and something that is passive—for example, someone who chooses not to take that next…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)A very good point has been made about looking at the Mental Capacity Act at different times during the process. However, it does not matter how many times a bad process is…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)I welcome the hon. Member’s attempt to improve safeguarding in the Bill, which I agree is currently not at the right level. Does she agree that the Mental Capacity Act assumes in…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)May I ask how what the Minister has just said interacts with voting? He set out clearly his involvement in the Committee, so how does that impact any votes that he will take part…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)Some incredibly important points have been made. I would like to give an example. Let us consider someone who is homeless. Perhaps they are staying with friends, as my right hon.…11 Feb 2025HANSARD Financial EducationI thank the hon. Member for that great contribution to the debate. I agree that all those small things add up and make a difference to our financial literacy. I am a chartered…06 Feb 2025HANSARD Financial EducationI warmly congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Broadland and Fakenham (Jerome Mayhew) on securing this important debate, and I commend him for his sustained efforts to drive…06 Feb 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Local GovernmentI draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I thank the Deputy Prime Minister for giving my constituents in Reigate and Banstead certainty over…05 Feb 2025HANSARDApprenticeshipsI am sorry; I will need to make progress so that the Minister has sufficient time. Crucially, it was a Conservative Government that brought the Skills and Post-16 Education Act…04 Feb 2025HANSARDApprenticeshipsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Jardine, and to respond today for the first time for His Majesty’s Opposition. I congratulate the hon. Member for…04 Feb 2025