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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Harris. The amendments have been tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Spen Valley in consultation with the Government. This…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)As I have repeatedly said, the Government are neutral on the fundamental question of the Bill, but we are absolutely committed to ensuring it is workable should it receive Royal…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I agree. Like any other aspect of what doctors and general practitioners do, this service is based on remuneration. They are professionals and should be remunerated as such, so…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)If we are specifically talking about the amendments tabled by the hon. Member for East Wiltshire, he is saying that the total turnover from providing this service should be…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)The challenge in the hon. Gentleman’s amendment is the term “total turnover.” A GP would have to extrapolate from the service provided to a whole range of other costs that may…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)As my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud has just said, the picture is very complex because there are tariffs for services. Doctors receive a tariff for each service across the…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)Amendments 360 and 361 introduce requirements on the co-ordinating doctor. Amendment 360 would insert an additional condition into the definition of a co-ordinating doctor and…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)Yes, absolutely, and before Report. Let us ensure that we do that, and that parliamentary counsel is in the room. I am not a constitutional lawyer, so we definitely need people in…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)It is, of course, the right hon. Lady’s prerogative to press amendments as and when she sees fit. I am simply flagging that terminology such as “appropriate authority” risks tying…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)Amendments 144 to 171, tabled by the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, relate to the powers and duties vested in the Secretary of State under the Bill. The purpose of the…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I thank the right hon. Lady for that. We go back to the point about the true significance of the 2011 Welsh Government Measure, which sets a basic foundation for the duty of the…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)What we are trying to say is that the important thing here is to ensure that, when the Secretary of State brings the regulations forward, the hands of the Secretary of State are…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I know that we are coming on to the question of appropriate authorities and I absolutely see and understand the spirit in which this amendment is suggested. The challenge is just…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Dowd. As I have said, the Government remain neutral and my role is not to offer a Government view on the merits of the…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)If I understood the point that my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud was making, I think it was that the basic provisions in place enable doctors to carry out their work based on…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)This group of amendments focuses on language and literacy barriers, including discussion of the use of interpreters and translations. If amendment 414 is agreed to, a registered…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I think it reflects the fact that, as the Committee has agreed, we are in uncharted territory on a whole range of issues here. I think it is best to think through the implications…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I have made it clear throughout the debate that I am not offering a Government view on the merits of amendments. My remarks are focused much more on the legal and practical…04 Mar 2025HANSARDEarly Support HubsThe Minister for Patient Safety, Women’s Health and Mental Health, my noble Friend Baroness Merron, has made the following written statement: Nothing says more about the state of…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I am happy to have that discussion, to better understand how it might all work in practice. If amendment 415 is agreed to, it will mean that an assessing doctor making an…04 Mar 2025