MPs made history last week by approving a bill which will give terminally ill adults in England and Wales with less than six months to live the right to end their own lives.
But the bill has caused deep divisions in the Government. While Starmer backed it, the two Cabinet ministers whose departments will be most involved in implementing the changes – Streeting and the Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood – voted against them.
Speaking to journalists at the Nato summit in The Hague, the Prime Minister said: “It is my responsibility to make sure the bill is workable, and that means workable in all its aspects. I’m confident we’ve done that preparation.”
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting, is against assisted dying (Photo: Thomas Krych/Anadolu via Getty)In a message on his Facebook page last week, Streeting said he would “make sure that we do a good job with it for the country”, but worried that MPs had made the wrong choice.
“Even with the savings that might come from assisted dying if people take up the service – and it feels uncomfortable talking about savings in this context, to be honest – setting up this service will also take time and money that is in short supply,” he said.
In the spending review earlier this month, the NHS was given an extra £29bn in real terms day-to-day spending between 2023-24 and 2028-29.
Some politicians and economists have questioned how long this trend will be sustainable.
The bill says that implementation of assisted dying will take up to four years, meaning that it could be late 2029 by the time a terminally ill person can legally have an assisted death.
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