Engagements

26 Mar 2025

Prime Minister

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in the House of Commons

Will the Prime Minister join me in thanking colleagues from across the House and the excellent Clerks and staff who have spent the last few months working on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of...

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New Clause 35 - Disability Advisory Board on the implementation and implications of the Act for disabled people

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I associate myself with the comments made by others, particularly my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich, about the fantastic work done by my hon. Friends the Members for Penistone and...

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New Clause 34 - Assisted Dying Not a Medical Treatment

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

We are entering deeply philosophical territory, which is welcome and has happened several times before during the Committee’s proceedings. As ever, the hon. Member for East Wiltshire has...

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New Clause 30 - Relatives seeking assistance at the same time

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich for tabling the new clause. I have some concerns around the broad definition of “family member”. I also feel that it would be potentially...

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New Clause 18 - Provision of information in English and Welsh

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I thank the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd for tabling the new clause. She has made extremely valuable points, as she has throughout the Committee, about the importance of respect for...

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New Clause 9 - Advertising offences: services of coordinating and independent doctors

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

New clause 9 specifically relates to the advertising of assisted dying services. I fully understand the intent behind it—to prevent the unethical advertising of assisted dying services. I...

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Clause 42 - Commencement

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I think that is a very inaccurate representation of the vote that took place in the Senedd.

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Clause 42 - Commencement

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I hope the hon. Member can acknowledge that the motion voted on in the Senedd was very different from the legislation before this Parliament. I hope that I can reassure her, as I have previously,...

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Clause 42 - Commencement

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

The hon. Member makes some very fair points, but I think they will be covered by my new clause 40.

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Clause 42 - Commencement

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Amendment 548 is not one that I had hoped to table, but I recognise that it is necessary. It is important to be clear about what it says and what it does not say. It creates a four-year backstop,...

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Clause 42 - Commencement

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I beg to move amendment 547, in clause 42, page 24, line 19, at end insert— “(1A) Section (Voluntary Assisted Dying Commissioner), except subsection (4) of that section, and Schedule...

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Clause 40 - Interpretation

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

The hon. Member is making some interesting points, but they are not related to the point of this amendment, which talks about the doctor being given more money for approving the request. That is...

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Clause 40 - Interpretation

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Will the hon. Member give way?

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Clause 40 - Interpretation

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

That absolutely is not what we have said.

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Clause 40 - Interpretation

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Will the hon. Member give way?

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Clause 40 - Interpretation

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I will not test the patience of the Committee by repeating the comments of my hon. Friends the Members for Sunderland Central and for Stroud and, indeed, of the Minister. I am comfortable that...

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Clause 40 - Interpretation

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

These amendments are drafting changes, but they are important drafting changes, in that they are about the definitions of first assessment, first declaration, second assessment, second...

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Clause 40 - Interpretation

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I beg to move amendment 392, in clause 40, page 23, line 27, at end insert— “‘first assessment’ has the same meaning as in section 7; ‘first declaration’ has...

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Clause 40 - Interpretation

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

It is fair to say that we have had a very valuable discussion on the matters relating to these amendments. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge for the considerable...

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Clause 39 - Regulations

25 Mar 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Kim Leadbeater made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

This is a standard power for regulations to include the power to make incidental, consequential, transitional or saving provision. This is a minor amendment, and it is a standard but vital...

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