Speeches by Olney.

“I think I said very clearly to the hon. Member for Stroud that it is not about the doctors. It is about the people who are commissioning them. I absolutely do not believe that about doctors operating in the private sector, who in my experience are often the same doctors as the ones in the NHS. It is about who is commis…”

“The issue is who is commissioning the service. The issue is not the doctors or how they are recompensed for the work that they do, but who is doing the recompensing and what their incentives are. If the process is part of an NHS-provided service where it is agreed that it is a compassionate end of life choice, and wher…”

“He paid a hefty fine, I think. The efforts of Henry VIII’s descendants to try to enclose the park and maintain the powers for the exclusive benefit of the royal family were defeated by a popular and somewhat genteel uprising of the residents of Richmond. I stand here today as the Member for Richmond Park to do a simila…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McVey. In Richmond Park, a Henry VIII power has traditionally meant the right of the monarch to hunt the deer in the large open space that gives my constituency its name—something that I am sorry to say he has in common with the dog of the hon. Member for East Wilts…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John. I begin by thanking the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Paul Davies) for opening this excellent debate. I also extend my thanks to Mr McMaster for initiating the petition, as well as the 130,000 members of the public who signed it. Their desire for the UK to be…”

“Why has the Treasury not yet been involved in your analytical services strategy?”

“Can I come back to you on the point about the Treasury and its role? The report highlights that the Treasury feels that, because its formal involvement does not come until towards the end of the approval process, it is not always clear to it what steps have been taken further up the chain. Is there not value in involvi…”

“Mr Hutton, just drawing on what Ms Bowyer was saying there about the difficulties of managing an in-year settlement, what are the things that you might have been able to do differently if you had had a bit more time to plan?”

“So you are confident that they have a full understanding of the challenges that you are facing and, when you are approaching them for money, what the importance of that longer-term settlement is.”

“Ms Bowyer, it is your turn, finally. I want to understand a bit more about the NDA’s funding from the Treasury, which is rather less than you requested. What kind of impact will that have?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. I thank the hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Blake Stephenson) for securing this debate. I am sure my husband, who is a Bedfordshire native, would have very much enjoyed his hymn to Bedfordshire. It has been a real pleasure to be a part of this debate, and…”

“We have! We have had countless debates and I have mentioned it on many occasions at Cabinet Office questions—my more usual home. Indeed, a Petitions Committee debate is scheduled in this very Chamber for Monday afternoon, when we will doubtless raise the issue again. I urge the Government to consider such a scheme and …”

“The report that the Public Accounts Committee did in 2018 highlighted that there are lots of layers of decision making that really inhibit the ability to respond rapidly. In the NAO’s new Report, we are finding that it is taking slightly longer to make decisions on some of your biggest projects than it did in 2018, so …”

“So you have acted on it already.”

“You are imagining.”

“I know: the Barnes ward in my constituency is one of the most unequal wards in the country, so I fully appreciate the right hon. Gentleman’s point. As I say, that is the socioeconomic indicator that I have for now, thanks to the failings of our predecessors to include it in the Equality Act, but I am open to amendments…”

“I expect the hon. Lady did, but since none of us in the room was a member of that Government—I think—or indeed Members of Parliament at the time, I do not know how hon. Members want me to respond to that. It remains the case, I believe, that socioeconomic status is not currently a protected characteristic under the Equ…”

“I thank the hon. Lady for that useful intervention. As I say, socioeconomic status is not currently a protected characteristic under the Equality Act.”

“I beg to move amendment 273, in clause 29, page 17, line 33, at end insert— “(1A) Regulations under subsection (1) must specify that the following information is collected for each assisted death— (a) the person’s age, (b) the person’s gender, (c) the person’s ethnicity, (d) the postcode of the person’s address at the …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris. We have discussed throughout the course of the Committee the importance of collecting good information on the operation of assisted dying, and I know that hon. Members will agree that understanding the impact of legislation on society, for better or ill, he…”