Written question asked by Danny Kruger (Conservative) on Tuesday, 12 March 2024, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 14 March 2024. It was answered by Maria Caulfield (Conservative) on Monday, 18 March 2024 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.
Suicide: Mental Health Services
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of legalising assisted dying on suicide prevention programmes.
- Answer
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It remains the Department’s view that any change to the law in this sensitive area is a matter for Parliament to decide, and an issue of conscience for individual parliamentarians rather than one for Government policy. The Department as no such plans to make any formal assessment.
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 18324
- Session
- 2023-24
- Grouped for answer
- Yes
- Subjects
- Decriminalisation Euthanasia Mental health services Suicide
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- 2024-03-18 18:23:35 +0000
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