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Found: You are 18 and you do not have the money to pay your care bill.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that there will be no cuts to the other parts of the health budget to pay for assisted dying if it is legalised in the UK.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

As per long-standing convention, the Prime Minister has set aside collective responsibility on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life Care) Bill, so the Government will remain neutral on the passage of the bill. As with all bills, there are multiple stages for it to go through before it can become law, and this continues to be a matter for Parliament.

If the will of Parliament is that the law on assisting dying should change, the Government would work to ensure that the law is implemented in the way that Parliament intends and that is legally effective.

Autumn Budget 2024 set budgets for this year and the next financial year. Funding for future years and future decisions across the health budget will be decided through the normal spending review process.

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Found: submitting this evidence to highlight challenges of implementing the Terminally Adult (End of Life Care) Bill

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Found: inequalities introduced by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and/or in the current Health and Care Bill