Legalise euthanasia in UK for cases of terminal illness

Select Committee

2023-03-28 10:00:00+01:00

Oral Evidence Mar. 28 2023

Inquiry: Assisted dying/assisted suicide
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)

Found: of a terminal illness.

Parliamentary Research
Assisted dying - POST-PB-0047
Sep. 26 2022

Found: In a debate in the House of Commons in July 2022 on an e-petition to legalise assisted dying for terminally

Westminster Hall
Assisted Dying - Mon 04 Jul 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Matt Hancock (IND - West Suffolk) data to inform this debate in exactly the way that it would for any other area—for most of which, of - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) have heard a number of them—in favour of the change that the petition calls for. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Green (LDEM - Chesham and Amersham) ones for assisting them in the ultimate act of compassion and love. - Speech Link
4: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) Member for Edinburgh West (Christine Jardine), in one of my first contributions in this place. - Speech Link
5: Matt Warman (CON - Boston and Skegness) think about today, they would only be doing so in cases of a terminal diagnosis with six months to live - Speech Link

Select Committee

Formal Minutes 2021-22: List of closed petitions

Formal Minutes Sep. 02 2022

Committee: Petitions Committee

Found: free public transport for all children in England under the age of 18 https://petition.parliament.uk

Lords Chamber
Health and Care Bill
Lords Hansard _ Part 1 - Wed 16 Mar 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: None material for the purpose of transplantation for which, in exchange for the removal of controlled material - Speech Link
2: Baroness Walmsley (LDEM - Life peer) I started off asking for the number of units of alcohol in a bottle of wine. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Cumberlege (CON - Life peer) for the worse and in some cases completely ruined—all because of mistakes, errors of judgment, oversights - Speech Link
4: Lord Kamall (CON - Life peer) Ultimately, the use of PERT in individual cases is for clinical decision-making, following a discussion - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Assisted Dying Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 22 Oct 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Farmer (CON - Life peer) In the Netherlands euthanasia is being proposed for people simply tired of life. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LDEM - Life peer) In the Netherlands, there is euthanasia for children. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (CON - Life peer) post a devastating terminal diagnosis—of MND in both cases. - Speech Link
4: Lord Jopling (CON - Life peer) in 2014 doctors for hire, doctors who are philosophically strongly supportive of euthanasia. - Speech Link
5: Viscount Colville of Culross (CB - Excepted Hereditary) In Oregon, the law was originally to assist patients with diagnoses of terminal illness with six months - Speech Link