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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has a latest completed stage recorded as 2nd reading on 11 Sep 2026 in the House of Commons.
Current position
- Latest completed stage
- 2nd reading11 Sep 2026
- Current stage
- 2nd reading
- House
- House of Commons
- Bill type
- Private Members' Bill (Ballot Bill)
- Last updated
- 14 Sep 2026
- Proposer / sponsor
- Lauren Edwards Proposer / sponsor · Labour · House of Commons
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View Parliamentary CalendarWhat this bill is about
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is a Private Members’ Bill that would seek to allow terminally ill adults to request and be provided with assistance to end their own life, with “safeguards and protections”, and includes connected purposes. The official bill page provides this long title description but no additional bill text or explanatory notes in the available sources, so the specific safeguards and how the assistance would work are not set out here.
What it would do
- Would seek to allow terminally ill adults to request assistance to end their own life.
- Would seek to provide that assistance subject to “safeguards and protections”.
- Would cover “connected purposes”, as described in the bill’s long title.
Bill journey
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1st reading 17 Jun 2026 · House of Commons
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2nd reading 11 Sep 2026 · House of Commons1 division
1 matched vote group 1 Commons division
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
1 Commons divisionThat amendment was about The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill did not pass its Second Reading; the division was 270 Ayes to 286 Noes.
Linked division records- Second Reading 11 September 2026 at 14:30 · Motion negatived
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