The health secretary said he would ‘hate for people to opt for assisted dying because they think they’re saving someone somewhere … money.’
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has ordered a review into the costs of implementing state-run assisted suicide.
The health secretary said that now the wording of the bill has been released, “I’ve asked my department to look at the costs that would be associated with providing a new service to enable assisted dying to go forward, because I’m very clear that regardless of my own personal position or my own vote, my department and the whole government will respect the will of Parliament if people vote for assisted dying.”
He added that work was under way and he could not give a date of when those figures would be available for review.
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