Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Allison Gardner Excerpts

Friday 16th May 2025 Commons Chamber

Amendments 78 and 79 relate to the decisions of the multidisciplinary voluntary assisted dying panels, as set out in schedule 2—an important change made in Committee. Each panel comprises a legal expert, a social worker and a psychiatrist.

[Dr Allison Gardner (Stoke-on-Trent South) (Lab)]

The Royal College of Psychiatrists states that it does not feel that, at this moment in time, there are sufficient psychiatrists able to take up a position on such a panel. What response does my hon. Friend have to that?

[Kim Leadbeater]

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. The Royal College of Psychiatrists has a neutral position on the issue of assisted dying. If we refer to the impact—[Interruption.] Yes, it does.