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Assisted Suicide/Voluntary Euthanasia

Volume 451: debated on Monday 6 November 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what representations she has received since July 2006 from (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) other health care professions in (i) support of and (ii) opposition to (A) assisted suicide and (B) voluntary euthanasia; and if she will make a statement; (97865)

(2) how many times her Department has consulted (a) formally and (b) informally on end-of-life decision making since June 2006; if she will list the stakeholders who have made representations to her Department on end-of-life issues during this period; and if she will make a statement.

We have had 72 letters and e-mails from professionals, the public and organisations since July 2006 on end-of-life issues expressing a wide range of views and opinions. Ministers have held recent meetings with the Archbishop of Westminster and with Dignity in Dying during which issues including end-of-life issues were discussed.