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HANSARDMinistry of Justice Contingency Fund Advance: 2024-25The Ministry of Justice requires an advance to discharge its commitments which are set out in its supplementary estimate 2024-25, published on 11 February 2025 as “HC 655 (Central…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Common law.26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)On the hon. Gentleman’s first point, there is no suggestion that we should somehow accept any weaker form of provision in this Bill to protect other parts of the law. Having said…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)To bring it back to the specific debate about the amendments, the terms “coercive” or “coerce” and “pressure” appear in the criminal law and have broad definitions. That is how…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)It might help if I offer—with the usual caveat that of course the Government are neutral—the Government’s position with respect to what the hon. Lady has been discussing. It is…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am certainly not saying that those are bad Acts, and I do not want anyone to quote me as saying that. We could in theory sit here and come up with a whole set of terms that…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)I know that Members will be eager to engage, and have already engaged, in a robust discussion about the issue of safeguarding, and how best to protect and prevent individuals from…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am going to make a little more progress; we will come back to that in a moment. It is really important that we have these concepts in other parts of criminal law and other parts…12 Feb 2025HANSARD Bereaved Parents: Birth CertificatesI thank the hon. Member for South Devon (Caroline Voaden) for securing this debate on an important and emotive subject. I start by saying how sorry I am for the loss that she and…04 Feb 2025HANSARD Bereaved Parents: Birth CertificatesMy hon. Friend is right to reflect on the growing number of couples in this country who cohabit and for whom marriage is not something they have chosen. It is right, too, that in…04 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q To be clear, I am here as a Government Minister on this Committee, and the Government are entirely neutral on the Bill, so we do not take a position on the substance of the…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Further to that point of order, Mrs Harris. I want to clarify the Government’s position. As the Committee knows, the Government are neutral on the Bill, but once the Committee has…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)We can take that suggestion away. Thank you.29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q It may flow from what this third layer of a panel or court is doing, but what sort of information would be desirable for the panel to have before it in order to add a meaningful…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q Lord Sumption and Dr Graham, you will have seen that clauses 26 and 27 include criminal offences. Do you have any views on the operability of those criminal offences? Dr Graham:…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q I want to pick up on your evidence, Sir Nicholas, in relation to the panel that we have just been discussing with Sir Max. I have three questions. First, what do you envisage…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the hon. Lady for her question, and I invite her to write to me about that specific case, which sounds like it throws up a very difficult set of factual circumstances that…28 Jan 2025HANSARDSupport for Domestic Abuse SurvivorsMy hon. Friend will know that this Government have a landmark ambition to halve violence against women and girls, and the criminal justice system has an important part to play in…28 Jan 2025HANSARDSupport for Domestic Abuse SurvivorsThis Government are committed to supporting victims and survivors of violence against women and girls. These are abhorrent crimes. We are therefore funding the rape and sexual…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Thank you.28 Jan 2025