Member

I am interested in understanding whether there are any other discussions that could take place that would not qualify as “preliminary discussions”. For example, does Clause 5(3) permit a practitioner to have a general chat about it? Could this happen before somebody was 18? I expect the answer may become no, but, as I said, I am somewhat nervous because of the new Clause 2 that was debated on Report in the Commons. I am trying to put in an extra safeguard and give clear guidelines to the registered medical practitioners at this point that, in a way, when they have that first conversation, the clock starts ticking and we have to formally start recording.