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Euthanasia

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 4714, tabled on 20 May 2021

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to bring forward legislative proposals on assisted dying to include exemptions for people with terminal illnesses.

Answered on

10 June 2021

It remains the Government’s view that any change to the law on assisted dying is an issue of individual conscience and a matter for Parliament to decide rather than one for Government policy.