London, June 2006. The All Party Pro-Life Group within the British Parliament has for a number of years been an adopted charity of the British and Irish Delegation having received in recent years over £13,000 (€19,000 euros).
In a letter to Lord Brennan, the new Delegate for Great Britain and Ireland, the Group’s chairman Jim Dobbin, MP, (left) said: “As you will no doubt be aware, the group’s members and staff were heavily involved in assisting our pro-life colleagues in the House of Lords in their campaign against Lord Joffe’s Assisted Dying Bill. Whilst we are certain that the bill will return in the next session of parliament, the recent campaign was extremely successful in promoting the United Kingdom’s world lead in palliative care and using this to counter the pro-euthanasia agenda.
“We also have a ten-minute rule bill on palliative care due to have its second reading on 20 October 2006, and we hope that this bill will find favour with the Government who have recently made some very promising statements on the extension and provision of palliative care for all those with a terminal illness.
“We are committed to increasing our activities further and I wanted to write to you for you to know that the All-Party Group is extremely grateful for the financial support which the Constantinian Order in Britain and Ireland has given, and continues to give, to this worthy cause. We are also delighted that your former Delegate in Great Britain and Ireland, and now appointed as worldwide Delegate for inter-religious affairs, HE Mr Anthony Bailey, has agreed to continue as Patron of this Group”.