Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)

Sarah Sackman Excerpts

Committee stage
Wednesday 26th February 2025 Public Bill Committees

[Stephen Kinnock]

I think the right hon. Member has outlined what I was saying, in slightly sketchier terms, about legislation, regulation, training, capacity building and delivery. What he has described falls under what I would broadly refer to as regulations, but within that there are a multitude of interventions, which could include codes of practice, other forms of legislation, other forms of guidance—

[The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Sarah Sackman)]

Common law.

[Stephen Kinnock]

Indeed: common law, jurisprudence and whatever a professional body might take as a steer for delivery. It is then about the professional judgment of the professional body.