INVOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA

Early day motion 340, tabled 22 February 1999 by Teddy Taylor (Conservative). Signed by 50 members.

That this House notes recent reports that deaths have occurred in hospitals because assisted nutrition and hydration were deliberately withheld from patients who wre not terminally ill; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to make this practice clearly illegal.

Signatures by party: Labour 22, Conservative 20, UUP 3, Labour/Co-operative 2, Liberal Democrat 2, UKUP 1.