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Today in Parliament

14/02/2025

Today in Parliament

BBC

Government

4.4162 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Susan Hulme with the latest deliberations on the assisted dying bill, a controversial drug facility and the heartbreak of losing comrades in war.

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

Order! Order.

0:07.7

Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Friday the 14th of February.

0:13.6

Coming up, as MPs begin taking a detailed look at the assisted dying bill,

0:18.4

one MP who was forced into a teenage marriage is worried that family

0:22.4

coercion can be subtle. The power of influence from people we often trust and rely upon in our

0:30.1

everyday lives, especially on seeking their advice, can often lead us to life-changing consequences.

0:37.9

Also, could claims for compensation over car loans sink the motor finance industry?

0:43.4

This is big, this could be PPI on speed, and MPs investigate a controversial new facility for drug users in Glasgow.

0:50.8

Rather than use in a lane or an alleyway or a car park or somewhere really quite unsanitary, they can bring it into the service and use it there.

1:01.0

But first, a small group of MPs got down this week to looking at the assisted dying bill in detail.

1:07.3

Properly called the terminally ill adults' end-of-life bill, it's being steered through Parliament

1:11.9

not by the government but by the Labour MP Kim Ledbetter. It would allow people in England and Wales

1:17.6

with less than six months to live to be helped to end their lives. The first week saw 10 hours

1:23.4

of intensive debate over two days, with many more to come. They grappled with huge issues like mental capacity, frame of mind, what constitutes coercion,

1:33.2

and would we spot it if we saw it?

1:35.8

Just to dip in for a moment, Labour's Naz Shah said she didn't think medical professionals

1:40.2

were properly trained to recognise coercion, and she had an example.

1:45.4

I was forced into a marriage at the age of 15. I was 12 when I went to Pakistan, and although I

1:50.7

wasn't physically bound or coerced in an overtly aggressive way, I was coerced nonetheless.

1:58.0

I made this decision, not for my own sake, but for the benefit of others. At the time,

2:03.1

I didn't think for myself, but rather for the benefit of my extended family members. She said the

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