Commons to Lords: the timeline for assisted dying bill’s progress

Kim Leadbeater, the sponsor of the bill, has put down a Commons motion to allow the committee of MPs to take submissions and hold hearings in public. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

The bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales will begin its next parliamentary stage this month as a committee of MPs chosen by the bill’s sponsor, Kim Leadbeater, begins taking evidence.

MPs voted for the assisted dying bill to proceed in late November but there are still significant hurdles in the Commons and the Lords for it to become law.