Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said that before assisted dying is considered in England and Wales, the funding of palliative and social care should be "fixed". "That is the fixing of the funding of palliative care and social care. In 2025, MPs voted in favour of a bill proposed by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater to legalise assisted dying. Following Burnham's comments, she said improving social care and legalising assisted dying was "not a case of either/or" and that the two things "can and must go hand in hand". He caveated his support as being for the principle of assisted dying and insisted he would want a requirement before any new law was implemented that hospices would be "properly funded and sorted out".