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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is currently listed at 2nd reading in the House of Commons.
Current position
- Latest completed stage
- 1st reading17 Jun 2026
- Next stage
- 2nd reading
- House
- House of Commons
- Bill type
- Private Members' Bill (Ballot Bill)
- Last updated
- 20 Jul 2026
- Proposer / sponsor
- Lauren Edwards Proposer / sponsor · Labour · House of Commons Prepared for future MP profile links
What 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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