Euthanasia

(asked on 16th December 2022) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 21st December 2022

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.

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