Assisted dying impact assessment to put price on enacting change in England and Wales

Protesters outside parliament at the time of November’s vote. MPs will vote again on the private member’s bill on 16 May Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

A long-awaited assessment of the impact of assisted dying legislation will put a price on administrating the procedure for the first time and is expected to conclude it will save parts of the NHS money by accelerating the deaths of terminally ill people.

The Whitehall document, which is expected as soon as Friday, is likely to make difficult reading for both sides of the campaign, government sources have suggested.