Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

(asked on 30th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they considered the legal opinion by Tom Cross KC and Ruth Kennedy entitled In the Matter of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill published on 28 April when updating the ECHR Memorandum for Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, published on 26 June.


Answered by
Baroness Merron Portrait
Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 14th July 2025

We were aware of the advice, but did not reference it in our European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) memorandum. The Government prepared the ECHR memorandum to assist the Joint Committee on Human Rights. In that memorandum, the Government has set out the articles of the ECHR which it considers are likely engaged by the bill, including Article 14 together with Article 2.

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