Assisted Suicide

Part of Royal Assent – in the House of Commons at 3:07 pm on 27 March 2012.

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Photo of Peter Bottomley Peter Bottomley Conservative, Worthing West 3:07, 27 March 2012

The hon. Lady is helping the debate. If the Government were forced to hold such a consultation, would it be based precisely on the DPP’s guidelines as they are, or would it open up the debate to state that some of the guidelines are wrong, that there should be not just assisted suicide but death on request, or that the situation ought to involve the chronically ill and some of the physically handicapped? Would the consultation be constricted, because if it were not, why would we hold it?