Written Question·Attorney General·UIN 14962

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Tabled: 19 November 2024
Answered: 27 November 2024

Question

Helen Grant

ConservativeMaidstone and Malling

To ask the Solicitor General, if she will make an assessment of whether the restriction of the application of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to terminally ill patients is compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights.

Answer

Sarah Sackman
Paragraph 21.27 of Erskine May states:“By long-standing convention, observed by successive Governments, the fact of, and substance of advice from, the law officers of the Crown is not disclosed outside government. This convention is referred to in paragra...

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