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

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

Updates to this page

From:
Department of Health and Social Care and Ministry of Justice
Published:
2 May 2025
Last updated:
26 June 2025
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  1. Updated to reflect the bill as introduced to the House of Lords.

  2. Added Welsh translation.

  3. Updated the 'Intended aims' section of the 'Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: equality impact assessment - HTML version' to correct the year 1 'high cohort' estimate in line with changes in the impact assessment (from 1,311 to 1,078) and to clarify that year 1 constitutes half a year. Also updated the same section to reflect the correct proportion of applications resulting in deaths (from 2 in 3 to 3 in 5). A point of clarification was also made to reflect the government's responsibility as "workable" instead of "lawful" in the introduction.

  4. 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: equality impact assessment - HTML version (as introduced to the Lords)

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

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

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

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Details

The equality impact assessment (EQIA) (as introduced to the House of Lords) considers equalities impacts in relation to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024, as amended in the House of Commons.

The previous EQIA (and summary) considered equality impacts in relation to the bill as amended after the Commons public bill committee stage.

See the Parliament website for all other documents relating to the bill, including the PDF version of the full EQIA.

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