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The Committee would welcome a response to the points raised under the previous headings by Friday 13 October 2023, including a timeline for publication of the additional research you are currently undertaking on some of the points mentioned above.
I am not going to talk about the individual case, but he is talking about retrospective decision making, and that is not something that I can talk about right now.I will have conversations with the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs with regard to all the things that we have talked about today.
I advise members who wish to contribute to the debate to press their request to speak buttons now. 14:39 In 1997, the people of Scotland voted overwhelmingly—by 74 per cent to 26 per cent—to establish the Scottish Parliament.
What question do you ask of the families at this point? The first and most important thing is to explain to the family that their loved one is either brain dead or about to die, and that conversation has to be quite separate from the discussion about organ donation.
Private international law has been mentioned. We might come back and talk in more detail about tokenisation, which was discussed earlier, but the bill is certainly a very useful starting point.
There is no similar guidance in Scotland, and the Policy Memorandum concludes that, in Scotland, “...it remains unclear what forms of assistance to die a medic, family member or friend may give to a terminally ill person without fear of being prosecuted”.
Ms Lennon has already pointed out that she was a member of the council at that point, so I wonder whether during her tenure there she moved for revocation of the planning application.