Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Cat Eccles Excerpts

2nd reading
Friday 29th November 2024 Commons Chamber

[Danny Kruger]

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. I will now run through the process before taking any more interventions.

As I have explained, pretty much anybody with a serious illness or disability could work out how to qualify for an assisted death under the Bill. Members may think that far-fetched, but it is what happens everywhere that assisted suicide is legal, including in Oregon.

[Cat Eccles (Stourbridge) (Lab)]

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. The hon. Gentleman is using incorrect language. It is not suicide. That is offensive. I ask him please to correct his language.

[Mr Speaker]

That is not a point of order.

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Cat Eccles Excerpts

Report stage
Friday 13th June 2025 Commons Chamber

[Kim Leadbeater]

I am going to make some progress.

However, it is most likely that these products are already licensed for other purposes. They could well be regulated through the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and within the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 for the purposes of the Bill, but it is important that time is given—

[Cat Eccles (Stourbridge) (Lab)]

Will my hon. Friend give way?

[Kim Leadbeater]

I will.

[Cat Eccles]

As an operating department practitioner with more than 20 years of experience, I emphasise that controlling and administering drugs is already a key part of every healthcare professional’s practice. Medicines management is at the front and centre of everything we do when handling drugs. Does my hon. Friend agree that the safeguards added to this Bill, along with the existing frameworks, are more than adequate to deal with this?

[Kim Leadbeater]

I thank my hon. Friend for sharing her expertise, along with other colleagues with medical backgrounds who have worked with me on this amendment.