Overview
- Parliamentary officials compiled close to 1,000 proposed changes overnight, the highest tally recorded for a backbench bill.
- The House of Lords returns to committee stage on Friday for detailed, grouped debates, with the government neutral and sponsor Lord Falconer handling any negotiations.
- Sixty-five peers wrote to colleagues saying the chamber’s task is to test and improve safeguards rather than stall the legislation, countering fears the bill could be talked out.
- The proposal would allow terminally ill adults expected to live fewer than six months to seek an assisted death with approvals from two doctors and a panel including social work, legal and psychiatric expertise.
- If both Houses agree on final wording, ministers would have up to four years to set up services, pointing to possible first cases in 2029/30, as public testimony includes the CPS decision not to prosecute Louise Shackleton after her husband’s death at Dignitas.