First Registered: 18/07/2018 • Last updated on: 27/01/2021
Raises awareness of issues around terminal illness in parliament. Promotes links between parliament, individuals and families affected, charities, scientists, health professionals and decision makers. Includes MPs from across the political spectrum who are keen to discuss, improve and share knowledge of end of life care.
1. Marie Curie Northern Ireland - written evidence
05/06/2019 - Inquiry: Welfare policy in Northern Ireland - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: in the provision of care to people with a terminal illness in Northern Ireland. We provide a range of
2. Marie Curie - written evidence
09/09/2019 - Inquiry: Welfare policy in Scotland - Scottish Affairs Committee
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Found: Attendance Allowance. People living with a terminal illness can access these benefits under a system of
3. Together for Short Lives - written evidence
09/09/2019 - Inquiry: Welfare policy in Scotland - Scottish Affairs Committee
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Found: that the misalignment between definitions of terminal illness, for the sake of ‘fast-track’ access to certain
4. Motor Neurone Disease Association - written evidence
31/10/2018 - Inquiry: Universal Credit - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: including loss of income.[1] As a progressive, terminal illness, people living with MND must inevitably leave
5. Bill 253 2017-19 (as introduced)
16/11/2018 - Bill Documents
Found: Bill 253
57/1Access to Welfare (Terminal Illness Definition) BillCONTENTS1Amendment of the Welfare Reform
1. Employment: Terminal Illness
17/12/2018 - Grand Committee
1: she informed her employer of her diagnosis of terminal breast cancer. Ms Woodcock is not alone, and therefore - Speech Link
2: accommodation they occupy by virtue of their office. A terminal illness for one of those clergy, as for anybody else - Speech Link
2. Terminally Ill People: Access to Benefits
22/02/2021 - Commons Chamber
1: forward my ten-minute rule Bill, the Welfare (Terminal Illness) Bill, last summer. I also thank individual - Speech Link
2: their review, more people are diagnosed with a terminal illness and risk being unable to get fast-track support - Speech Link
3. Access to Welfare (Terminal Illness Definition)
18/07/2018 - Commons Chamber
1: bring in a Bill to amend the definition of terminal illness in the Welfare Reform Act 2012; and for connected - Speech Link
4. Welfare (Terminal Illness)
22/07/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: address the failures of the special rules for terminal illness, which do not fast-track some terminally ill - Speech Link
5. Universal Credit and Terminal Illness
09/05/2018 - Commons Chamber
1: acutely aware of every second as it passes. Terminal illness deeply affects families in our communities - Speech Link
2: universal credit is having on people with terminal illness, I ask the Minister not to follow the same - Speech Link
6. Terminal Illness (Provision of Palliative Care and Support for Carers)
23/05/2018 - Commons Chamber
1: of comprehensive palliative care to those with terminal illnesses, including adults over the age of 60; - Speech Link
7. Universal Credit: Terminally Ill People
29/11/2017 - Commons Chamber
1: and 12 for the enhanced rate. The rules on terminal illness suggested that if the probability was that - Speech Link
2: ESA, “special rules” means someone who has a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than six months. - Speech Link
8. Assisted Dying
04/07/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: prospect of great suffering at the end of a terminal illness—suffering that cannot be alleviated by our - Speech Link
2: lives and die naturally—even through a horrific illness with horrific symptoms—are given every support - Speech Link
3: law for people in the final six months of a terminal illness, and well over 50% of people who declare that - Speech Link
4: dying at their own hand because they have a terminal illness that they do not want to live with. How can - Speech Link
5: question of whether, in the final six months of a terminal illness, a narrow assisted dying law, with legal and - Speech Link
6: his mind to take his life soon after receiving a terminal diagnosis of inoperable lung cancer. But he still - Speech Link
9. Coronavirus Regulations: Assisted Deaths Abroad
05/11/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: suffered the pain of watching a loved one battle a terminal degenerative condition, and I share a deep respect - Speech Link
2: travel restrictions. As a frontline NHS worker with terminal breast cancer, she did not want to run the risk - Speech Link
3: draws a distinction between those who have a terminal illness and the broader issue of suicide, which is - Speech Link
4: of faith leaders, the public and those who face terminal disease, as Parliament debates this subject. - Speech Link
5: abroad to end their lives when they have a terminal illness—I find that dreadfully sad. I ask my right - Speech Link
6: acceptance—after they have been given a diagnosis of terminal illness? We are failing so many people right across - Speech Link
10. Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Claimants previously entitled to a severe disability premium) Amendment Regulations 2021
11/02/2021 - Lords Chamber
1: briefing, points out the impact on people with terminal illnesses or life-limiting conditions. It says - Speech Link
2: The disabled, carers and those with a long-term illness are in the poorest 10% of the population. Quite - Speech Link
3: the move to universal credit for people with terminal illness who live alone without a carer, and the impact - Speech Link
4: benefits are disabled, carers or have a long-term illness. The majority of these fall within the poorest - Speech Link
5: rules for people with terminal illnesses. We take the issue of terminal illness very seriously and treat - Speech Link
Registered Contact:
Drew Hendry MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 6118.
Email: drew.hendry.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Marine Paclet, Marie Curie, 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP. Tel: 020 7599 7256
Email: marine.paclet@mariecurie.org.uk
Secretariat:
Marie Curie acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/
Group's Website:
https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/policy/appg-for-terminal-illness
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Terminal Illness APPG