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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024: impact assessment

The impact assessment presents the impacts of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024.

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From:
Department of Health and Social Care and Ministry of Justice
Published:
2 May 2025
Last updated:
22 April 2026
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  1. Updated 'Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: impact assessment (as introduced to the Lords)' to correct 7 factual in-text citation errors. These factual corrections are detailed in the version control table on page 152 of the document. Further minor changes have also been made throughout the document to improve footnote accuracy.

  2. Updated to reflect the bill as introduced to the House of Lords.

  3. Added Welsh translation.

  4. Updated the impact assessment to correct 2 errors: in paragraph 68 and figure 4, presentational correction to reflect that the ‘high scenario’ assisted death estimates are based on trend observed in Oregon from 2013 to 2022, rather than 2014 to 2023; and in table 4, to correct the proportion of assisted deaths under the high scenario in year 1 from 0.13% to 0.11%. All impacts derived from the year 1 high scenario have therefore been adjusted across the impact assessment. All corrected sections have a footnote added to explain the adjustments. See the correction notice on the last page of the impact assessment for further information.

  5. First published

This was published under the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024: impact assessment (as introduced to the Lords)

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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024: impact assessment (as amended in public bill committee)

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Details

The impact assessment (IA) (as introduced to the House of Lords) considers potential impacts of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024 as amended in the House of Commons.

The previous IA considered potential impacts of the bill as amended after the Commons public bill committee stage.

See the Parliament website for all other documents relating to the bill.

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