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Hello, I'm Alicia McCarthy, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Friday the 12th of December, where peers propose more safeguards to the assisted dying bill to stop so-called doctor shopping.

When someone is desperate, frightened or grieving, they simply will go from clinician to clinician

until they find the answer they feel they want and need.

But other peers argue it's unrealistic to expect patients to have a close connection to their GP.

Home visits are mentioned in a number of the amendment.

Home visits? Who's ever had a home visit recently?

I mean, these are a thing in the past.

Also on this programme, a Commons Committee investigates why it's so hard for businesses

to get money to grow.

And as Westminster gears up for the festive season, we look back at the riotous Christmas of 1641.

Large crowds essentially block the entrance into the House of Lords and start yelling no bishops, no popish lords.

But first, the Lords have spent another day debating the detail of the assisted dying bill.

The legislation would allow for someone over 18 in England and Wales with six months or less to live

the right to ask for help to end their life. It's been put forward not by the government, but by Labour MP Kim Ledbetter and has already passed through its stages in the Commons.

Now it's undergoing clause by clause stages in the Commons. Now it's undergoing clause-by-claw scrutiny in the Lords.

Over a thousand changes have been proposed, but so far only a clutch of them have been debated.

That lack of progress has provoked a flurry of letter writing, including one from a group of peers,

urging fellow members of the Upper House not to manipulate procedures to block the bill. I spoke to Conservative former MP, Mark

now Lord Harper. He opposes the bill and denies peers are moving too slowly. Part of the reason

why there are lots of amendments is the legislation is in such terrible shape.

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