Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reviewing the law on assisted dying.
The Government has no plans to review the law on assisted dying. It remains our view that any change to the law in this sensitive area is a matter for Parliament to decide and an issue of conscience for individual parliamentarians rather than one for Government policy.
The Health and Social Care Select Committee launched an inquiry on assisted dying on 5 December and the Government will consider the Committee’s report in due course.