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how your MPs voted on the assisted dying bill which went through parliament today
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29/11/2024
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There is a rational fear of the reality of coercion and what drives decisions within
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families, what individuals feel is best for their family. There is a rational fear of
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how institutional pressures, lack of resources and, appallingly, culture within the NHS might
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ramp up the convenience of death as an affordable option. This is not a new fear, and the hon.
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Member for York Central mentioned this. Baroness Neuberger's review into the Liverpool care
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pathway said that in order that everyone dying in the acute sector can do so with dignity,
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the present situation has to change. That was in 2013. We know in the aftermath of covid
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how little has changed. Death as an institutional convenience has never been and never will
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be right. It is our duty to demand good palliative care, to address the institutional barriers
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and the resource barriers to good palliative care.
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But this is not a licence to sidestep today's moral question. The people of England and
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Wales now expect us as legislators to provide an answer in principle. It is our duty to
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provide that answer not only in principle but also in process. With this in mind, I
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will support this Bill at second reading if there is a guarantee of sufficient scrutiny
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to stitch together a complete garment out of what are presently threads and patches
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that could, as we heard, be rent asunder in court. If Bill committee scrutiny cannot make
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this Bill robust, I will reconsider my support at future votes.
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The implications for Wales, where health is, of course, devolved, cry out for proper consideration.
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I support the hon. Member for Gowers and St Pancras in her concerns about the Sewel convention
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and the need for a legislative consent motion in the Senate.
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I want to pay credit to Iola Dorkin of Morfyn Efin, whom I have known for over 30 years
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and who is presently dying of motor neurone disease. She wears a brace that her husband
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has adapted to make her more comfortable. Today, she is on respite in a hospice in Holyhead,
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that is 50 miles away from her home. That is the reality of people's lives as things
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stand. We need a change in the law.
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Assisted dying is already occurring in unregulated ways, with up to 650 terminally ill people
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taking their own lives each year, often in traumatic circumstances causing additional
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pain for their loved ones. This Bill promotes freedom of choice at the end of life in a
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controlled and regulated manner. Does my hon. Friend agree that legal assisted dying would
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provide essential safeguards where there currently are none?
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I have grappled with this. I still do. When my hon. Friend the Member for Spen Valley
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was speaking earlier, I had a packet of tissues and I made swift work of them. It really is
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so difficult for so many of us, with personal experience. It is genuinely our privilege
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to be able to say that this is what we want or what we do not want. We may not be facing
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that right now in our lives. I will be voting for the Bill today. When you are, you think
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about it deeply. I think about this all the time. I really need to get a bit of a life,
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but it really is something that bothers me.
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I have to say that it is not easy. I want everybody out there to know that it is not
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easy. It is really difficult, and it is difficult for those on opposing sides. The Bill places
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multiple duties on the Secretary of State in England around code of practices and providing
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assistance with the NHS. The Welsh Government need to be happy with the Secretary of State
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in England in deciding how services are provided within the Welsh NHS. There will need to be
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an amendment, which I suspect will then engage with a civil convention.
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The need for subordinate legislation to enact this Bill is really complicated, and we need
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to see how this will be passed here in this place. There are issues around the code of
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practice, because some of them have devolved. I just want to highlight that today, because
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we need to be mindful that, regardless of the emotional stories that we are going to
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be hearing in this place, it does have an impact on legislation in Wales. It is very
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important that, when this Bill goes through, or if it does go through today, that those
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discussions are had, because everybody's lives matter and we have to get this legislation
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right.
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