Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 77

On 20 June 2025, the House of Commons passed Amendment 77 to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill by 275 votes to 209. The amendment, tabled by the Bill's sponsor Kim Leadbeater, expanded the duty on regulations governing final statements to require that those statements record whether the person had a disability within the meaning of section 6 of the Equality Act 2010 immediately before their death, excluding any disability arising from the terminal illness itself. The amendment strengthens the monitoring framework around assisted dying by ensuring that disability status is captured in the official record at the point of death. This information would feed into the data available to Chief Medical Officers and to the statutory review of the Act, giving regulators and Parliament a clearer picture of who is accessing assisted dying and whether people with disabilities are using the service at disproportionate rates. The practical effect is to add a specific equality data point to the final statement that must be completed under the Bill's oversight provisions. The vote did not divide along strict party lines, reflecting the free vote applying across the Commons on this Bill. Labour MPs voted 184 in favour and 104 against, with 73 absent. Liberal Democrats backed the amendment by 53 to 11. Conservatives opposed it more heavily, voting 66 against and 14 in favour. The Democratic Unionist Party and Ulster Unionist Party voted entirely against. The Green Party's four MPs all voted in favour. Reform UK split two ayes to four noes. The result sits alongside several other divisions taken the same day at Report Stage, a stage in which MPs debate and vote on proposed changes to a Bill that has already passed through committee, with the Bill subsequently passing its Third Reading by 314 to 291.