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1998-99

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to introduce legislation requiring that the withdrawal of food and fluid from persistent vegetative state patients be subject to a court order but otherwise following the Guideline of the British Medical Association on the withdrawal of treatment.

Asked by
David Amess (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 November 1999
Reference
97097; 337 c480W
House
House of Commons

What are the implications for their policy of opposition to euthanasia of: (a) the recent document 'Withholding and Withdrawing Life Prolonging Medical Treatment', produced by the British Medical Association; (b) those sections of the Incapable Adults (Scotland) Bill recently introduced into the Scottish Parliament providing for the definition of assisted...

Asked by
Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 November 1999
Reference
HL 3386; 606 c123WA
House
House of Lords

Whether (a) they have any plans to change their policy not to enshrine in statute law the judgment in Airedale NHS Trust v Bland (1993) in relation to the definition of assisted food and fluid as treatment and the removal of tubal feeding from Mr Tony Bland, or (b) they...

Asked by
Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 November 1999
Reference
606 c122WA; HL 4467
House
House of Lords

What estimate they have made of the annual numbers of mentally incapable adults in (a) Scotland and (b) the rest of the United Kingdom whose death could be brought about by the removal of artificial nutrition and hydration if such removal were legally sanctioned (a) without recourse to the courts...

Asked by
Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 November 1999
Reference
606 c122-3WA; HL 4468
House
House of Lords

Whether there are any differences between their policies in relation to the removal of assisted nutrition and hydration from (a) patients in persistent vegetative state; and (b) other mentally incapacitated patients; and whether they have any plans to propose changes to the law or practice in relation to such matters....

Asked by
Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 November 1999
Reference
606 c121-2WA; HL 4466
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will issue guidance on the withholding or withdrawal of tube feeding and hydration from patients who are not terminally ill, following the BMA's own guidance on this issue.

Asked by
Hilary Benn (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 November 1999
Reference
97251; 337 c454W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the numbers of mentally-incapable adults in (a) Scotland and (b) the rest of the United Kingdom in each of the last three years whose death could have been brought about by the removal of artificial nutrition and hydration...

Asked by
Ann Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
2 November 1999
Reference
337 c103-4W; 96521
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the differences between his policies in relation to the removal of assisted nutrition and hydration from (a) patients in persistent vegetative state and (b) other mentally-incapacitated patients; what plans he has for changes to the law or practice...

Asked by
Ann Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
2 November 1999
Reference
337 c103W; 96518
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the basis is for the distinction he makes between advance directives and advance refusals in respect of patients in persistent vegetative state or otherwise mentally incapacitated.

Asked by
Ann Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
2 November 1999
Reference
337 c104W; 96522
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to introduce legislation defining assisted food and fluid as treatment which may be withdrawn from patients with mental incapacities other than persistent vegetative state; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by
Ann Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
2 November 1999
Reference
337 c104W; 96519
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what definition he uses of the phrase, a patient's best interests, in relation to patients in persistent vegetative state and other mentally-incapacitated patients.

Asked by
Ann Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
2 November 1999
Reference
337 c104W; 96632
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to enshrine in statute law the judgement in Airdale NHS Trust v. Bland [1993] in relation to the definition of assisted food and fluid as treatment and the removal of tubal feeding from Mr Tony Bland. - We...

Asked by
Ann Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
2 November 1999
Reference
337 c104-5W; 96631
House
House of Commons

That this House notes the Government's persistent promises to oppose euthanasia and Ministers' repeated commitments not to introduce legislation to enshrine in statute law the Bland judgement; further notes that this defined assisted food and fluid as treatment which was withdrawn from Mr Tony Bland bringing about his death by...

Primary sponsor
Kerry Pollard (Labour)
Type
Early day motions
Date
28 October 1999
Reference
958
House
House of Commons

That this House welcomes the individual statements from the Chief Rabbi, Professor Jonathan Sacks, and from His Grace Cardinal Thomas Winning of Glasgow, each expressing deep regret and concern at the BMA guidelines on withholding and withdrawing nutrition and hydration from patients; notes that both these important religious leaders view...

Primary sponsor
Ann Winterton (Conservative)
Type
Early day motions
Date
14 July 1999
Reference
832
House
House of Commons

That this House notes with concern that the British Medical Association report on Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Prolonging Medical Treatment makes no distinction between the effect of withdrawing life-support, such as ventilation, and withdrawal of food and fluid by tube from a patient who is not dying, and that the report...

Primary sponsor
Joe Benton (Labour)
Type
Early day motions
Date
29 June 1999
Reference
773
House
House of Commons

That this House welcomes the not guilty verdict brought in by the jury at Newcastle Crown Court and the summing up by Judge Hooper following the admission by Dr Moor that he had, at the patient's request, alleviated the suffering of 85 year old cancer victim George Liddell in July...

Primary sponsor
Joseph Ashton (Labour)
Type
Early day motions
Date
12 May 1999
Reference
640
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what data he has collated on cases in which medical treatment has been given to a patient with the deliberate intention of hastening death. - Inc fact that information on such cases is not available centrally.

Asked by
Brian Iddon (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 May 1999
Reference
83394; 331 c135W
House
House of Commons

That this House notes recent reports that deaths have occurred in hospitals because assisted nutrition and hydration were deliberately withheld from patients who wre not terminally ill; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to make this practice clearly illegal.

Primary sponsor
Teddy Taylor (Conservative)
Type
Early day motions
Date
22 February 1999
Reference
340
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hospitals are currently the subject of police investigations into cases of alleged euthanasia; and if he will list them. - Including fact that information not collected centrally.

Asked by
Nigel Waterson (Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
18 January 1999
Reference
323 c336W; 65570
House
House of Commons