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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)I am on the Committee as a Member of Parliament and I vote as such. When I speak on the Committee, I speak as a Government Minister in order to provide factual and technical…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I apologise; I think I misunderstood the intervention of my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford West, so my comments were not clear. I meant the treatment of this matter under the…11 Feb 2025HANSARDMental Health ServicesAfter 14 years of Tory neglect and incompetence, we inherited a broken NHS, and nowhere is that more apparent than in our mental health services. Too many people are waiting too…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)The amendments relate to the criteria that individuals would need to meet to request assistance to die under the Bill. All the amendments seek to amend the eligibility criteria in…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. My understanding is that it is termed as a treatment under the law. The Government do not take a view on the semantics of the word;…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)I thank the right hon. Member for her intervention. We have had a conversation about the need to ensure that the impact assessment has a clear and specific focus on the impact in…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)The fundamental position of the Government is that the Mental Capacity Act as it stands is a known quantity. It provides the legal base for a whole range of measures and…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)Further to that point of order, Sir Roger. I thank the hon. Member for East Wiltshire for his question. Let us take this back to first principles. This is a private Member’s Bill.…11 Feb 2025HANSARDMental Health ServicesThe hon. Lady will know that the Government’s position on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is one of neutrality. I am on the Bill Committee simply to speak about the…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt is vital that we have a palliative and end of life care service that works and is on a sustainable footing. I have had discussions with the sector. We want to ensure that we do…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)My apologies, Sir Roger. It was just a point of clarification.11 Feb 2025HANSARDMental Health ServicesMy hon. Friend is a doughty campaigner on this issue in her constituency. She is right that the integration of services is crucial to ensuring that we get the best possible…11 Feb 2025HANSARDHospicesI thank my hon. Friend for that question. On her point about long-term funding, last week I chaired a roundtable with key stakeholders from the sector, and we were absolutely…11 Feb 2025HANSARDHospicesI thank my hon. Friend for that question. One of the three shifts that the 10-year plan will deliver is shifting more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community. In the…11 Feb 2025HANSARDHospicesI am once again struck by the fact that Conservative Members seem to welcome the additional investment that the Chancellor has put into our health and care service, but do not…11 Feb 2025HANSARDHospicesI thank my hon. Friend for this important question, and I commend the work of hospices such as Nottinghamshire hospice in his constituency, which I know does a wonderful job for…11 Feb 2025HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs AssessmentsChildren and young people with special educational needs are waiting too long for the NHS services that they need, in large part because local authorities have been hollowed out…11 Feb 2025HANSARDMental Health ServicesAfter the disastrous 14 years that we have had, we are facing a very serious situation in terms of mental health provision. It will take some time to get the workforce in place,…11 Feb 2025HANSARDMental Health ServicesWhat we know about targets is that if we try to overload a system with too many targets, it causes confusion and ends up with, as the hon. Lady rightly says, perverse outcomes. We…11 Feb 2025HANSARDHospicesHospices provide vital care and support for patients and their families at the most difficult time. I am very proud that this Government have provided a £100 million capital…11 Feb 2025