# Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (England and Wales)

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## TL;DR

This private member's bill would have let terminally ill adults in England and Wales ask for help to end their own life. It passed the House of Commons in June 2025 but did not complete its House of Lords stages in that session, so it is not law.

## Summary

United Kingdom (England and Wales), private member's bill, not enacted. Parliament's record gives its long title as 'A Bill to allow adults who are terminally ill, subject to safeguards and protections, to request and be provided with assistance to end their own life', sponsored by Kim Leadbeater in the Commons and Lord Falconer of Thoroton in the Lords; it originated in the Commons and its last recorded stage is Lords committee stage, which began on 14 November 2025. A Bevan Brittan briefing of 5 May 2026 reports that the Commons passed it at third reading on 20 June 2025, that as drafted it applied to people with a life expectancy of six months or less, and that it did not complete its Lords stages by 24 April 2026, the last scheduled day of committee stage, so it will not pass in that parliamentary session.

## Fields

- Kind: Term
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill; Leadbeater bill; assisted dying bill England and Wales
- Tags: law; uk

## Sources

- UK Parliament Bills API: Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (bill 3774): https://bills-api.parliament.uk/api/v1/Bills/3774
- Bevan Brittan: where are we now? (5 May 2026): https://www.bevanbrittan.com/insights/articles/2026/the-terminally-ill-adults-end-of-life-bill-where-are-we-now/

## Connected records

- terms: [Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill](https://onco.cc/terms/law-scotland-assisted-dying-bill/), [California End of Life Option Act (2015)](https://onco.cc/terms/law-california-end-of-life-option-act/), [Medical assistance in dying in Canada (Criminal Code, section 241.2)](https://onco.cc/terms/law-canada-maid/), [Netherlands Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) Act (2001)](https://onco.cc/terms/law-netherlands-euthanasia-act/), [Oregon Death with Dignity Act (1997)](https://onco.cc/terms/law-oregon-death-with-dignity-act/), [Spain Organic Law 3/2021 regulating euthanasia](https://onco.cc/terms/law-spain-euthanasia-act/), [Victoria Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Australia)](https://onco.cc/terms/law-victoria-voluntary-assisted-dying-act/), [Washington Death with Dignity Act (Initiative 1000, 2008)](https://onco.cc/terms/law-washington-death-with-dignity-act/)

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