Orders of the Day — Mental Capacity Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 8:07 pm on 11 October 2004.

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Photo of Tony Wright Tony Wright Labour, Cannock Chase 8:07, 11 October 2004

I will not give way again because I want to end.

Instead of slippery slopes, I would offer the alternative of gradual gradients. Gradual gradients say that we have to try carefully, intelligently and constructively to put a framework around some extremely complex decision-making issues. That is what Parliament has to do. As Dr. Pugh said, in a sense, it will always be a kind of muddle through a minefield, but at least we ought to muddle through as intelligently, rationally and sensitively as we possibly can, and I believe that that is what the Bill tries to do.