The bill would establish a legal presumption that everybody is able to make decisions about their own treatment unless they are proved to be mentally incapable of doing so.
"There was a proposal about seven or eight years ago for the building regulations to have a presumption against air conditioning in the UK and the industry fought against that and the industry won, " he says.
He pointed out to Mr Hollobone that the new planning framework had a presumption in favour of sustainable development, not any development, so if there were concerns about the impact of a plan, it could still be turned down.