HC Deb 02 November 1999 vol 337 cc104-5W
Mrs. Ann Winterton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to enshrine in statute law the judgment in Airdale NHS Trustv. Bland [1993] in relation to the definition of assisted food and fluid as treatment and the removal of tubal feeding from Mr. Tony Bland. [96631]

Mr. Hutton

We have no plans to enshrine this judgment in statute law.