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Mental Health Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his very helpful response. As he realises, I am concerned about ensuring uniform good practice in courts. Delays with psychiatric reports are very much to the detriment of mentally disordered defendants and cause delays in courts, which these days—in the Crown Court at least—cost between £15,000 and £20,000 a day to run. I hope that the pilot will prove successful and that, if it is, it can be rolled out quickly throughout all the circuits so that these difficulties will no longer occur. Having regard to the Minister’s helpful assurance of progress, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendment No. 29 not moved.]