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Debate on bill on Monday, 18 June 2007, in the House of Commons.

Mental Health Bill [Lords]

Mental Health Bill (HL). Programme (No 2) motion on proceedings on report and third reading. Agreed to on question. Report stage first day. New Clauses 3, 4, 6 and 7 agreed to on question. New Clause 5 agreed to. New Clause 9 negatived on question. New Clause 15 negatived on division. New Schedule 1 agreed to. Adjourned.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
461 c1088-210 
Session
2006-07
Department
Department of Health
Legislative stage
Report stage
Procedure
Programme motions
New clauses
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Proceeding contributions
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1088 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That the Order of 16th April 2007 (Mental Health Bill [Lords] (Programme)) be varied ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1093 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
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Speaker | 461 c1093-4 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Amendment (a) to the proposed new clause,...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1094-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to report back from the Committee after our extensive debates. It is particularly p...
David Kidney | 461 c1095 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend mentions the existence of independent mental capacity advocates under the 2005 ...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1088-9 (Link to this contribution) I do not propose to press the programme motion to a Division because the Government have given two f...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1095 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to raise that important issue. We believe that there is scope for advocates,...
Lord Garnier | 461 c1095 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for coming late to the subject. I was not a member of the Public Bill Committee, so this...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1095 (Link to this contribution) I can assure the hon. and learned Gentleman that they certainly will not be paid for merely by the p...
Madeleine Moon | 461 c1095-6 (Link to this contribution) I have today received an e-mail from Mental Health Matters, a charity in Bridgend that provides a co...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1098-9 (Link to this contribution) Of course I understand that, and I know that my hon. Friend is concerned about this particular issue...
Chris Bryant | 461 c1098 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister realises that the issue is also very sensitive in the other direction. Many...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1096 (Link to this contribution) We would like to ensure that the advocacy services are delivered in the most appropriate way. If the...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1096 (Link to this contribution) Will there be a statutory right for the patient to see the independent advocate in private?
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1097-8 (Link to this contribution) That is something that the hon. Gentleman will need to take up with the National Assembly for Wales....
Hywel Williams | 461 c1097 (Link to this contribution) Further to what the Minister has said, would advocates in Wales be treated as working for a public b...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1096;461 c1096-7 (Link to this contribution) That is exactly why, as I have said, we have included in the power relating to regulations the abili...
Meg Hillier | 461 c1096 (Link to this contribution) It seems to me implicit in new clause 3 that an advocate should be able to speak with the patient, a...
David Kidney | 461 c1102 (Link to this contribution) I raised the issue of common advocacy standards, training and arrangements with independent mental c...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1101-2 (Link to this contribution) I want to comment on two aspects of this group. First, I want to pose some questions to the Minister...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1101 (Link to this contribution) I am astonished that the hon. Gentleman refers to our Bill, which has been through such distinguishe...
John Bercow | 461 c1101 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the right hon. Lady that I was not here for the start of her remarks. I have no wish ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1100-1 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, a number of changes were suggested in the draft Bill, but it was rather...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1100 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and I shall try to make them brief. If the Minister is to be consistent, why was it app...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1100 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I am sure that we will hear his arguments in full before ...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1100 (Link to this contribution) To pre-empt the new clause that I shall propose in a minute, may I ask the Minister: has not the pow...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1100 (Link to this contribution) There is no evidence to support the proposition that the period is too long. Of course, I am aware o...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1112-3 (Link to this contribution) I will respond briefly to the points that have been made. First, on the issue raised by the hon. Mem...
Hywel Williams | 461 c1112 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome the proposals on advocacy, but I am concerned to ensure that advocacy services in Wa...
Speaker | 461 c1111 (Link to this contribution) I call Kitty Ussher. I beg your pardon—I mean Meg Hillier.
Baroness Browning | 461 c1110 (Link to this contribution) My name does not often appear on amendments alongside that of the Secretary of State for Health, but...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1111 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that, but I felt that the Minister was praying in aid the code of practice in her respo...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1110-1 (Link to this contribution) Let me just finish this point. When the code of practice is drawn up, it is important that the Gove...
David Kidney | 461 c1111 (Link to this contribution) Before everybody loses sight of the fact, I point out that proposed new clause 130B(3)(a) in new cla...
Sandra Gidley | 461 c1107-8 (Link to this contribution) It would be churlish of me not to welcome the Government new clauses and amendments. As the Minister...
David Kidney | 461 c1106-7 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, and as I explained on Second Reading, a hospital in my constituency specialises in eating di...
Sandra Gidley | 461 c1108-9 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to go into individual cases. The example that I cited was not the best example of the ...
Ian Gibson | 461 c1108 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Lady will know, Rocky Bennett was in a certain unit in my constituency. How would advoca...
Lynne Jones | 461 c1109-10 (Link to this contribution) Like everyone who has spoken, I warmly welcome the Government new clauses and amendments and the inc...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1102-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has raised that issue before, and has been a big advocate of advocates for some t...
David Kidney | 461 c1105 (Link to this contribution) In speaking on advocacy, I should declare an interest. I am honorary president of the Advocacy Servi...
Ian Gibson | 461 c1105 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that advocacy is not just about helping the patient from a health point of...
David Kidney | 461 c1105-6 (Link to this contribution) I agree, but as we found in debating and amending Acts such as the original 1983 Act, legal issues c...
Ian Gibson | 461 c1106 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that many of the people who suffer from anorexia and bulimia are often qui...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1123-4 (Link to this contribution) We cannot accept new clause 9, but I urge the House to accept Government amendment No. 26, which is ...
Ann Widdecombe | 461 c1141-2 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. May I draw to your attention the situation with regard to t...
Lord Boswell of Aynho | 461 c1123 (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief. I endorse the comments that have been made on this matter. I have three penal esta...
John Pugh | 461 c1123 (Link to this contribution) It is estimated that a large number of prisoners have mental illness, which is to be expected becaus...
Speaker | 461 c1123 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendment No. 26
John Pugh | 461 c1123 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
John Pugh | 461 c1122 (Link to this contribution) I join in the praise for the Zito Trust and all the campaigning organisations that will have helped ...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1120-1 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak briefly in support of the new clause, which my hon. Friends and I signed. Although we ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1120 (Link to this contribution) The term ““public health”” might have a different connotation, too, and could be slightly confusing....
Speaker | 461 c1117 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Government new schedule 1—‘Victims’ right...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1117-20 (Link to this contribution) The new clause, new schedule and amendment relate to the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 20...
Ian Gibson | 461 c1120 (Link to this contribution) I welcome many of the procedures and accept their necessity, but I want to raise a point made to me ...
James Duddridge | 461 c1116-7 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is correct to predict that Members on both sides of the House are likely to support the...
John Pugh | 461 c1116 (Link to this contribution) We discovered in Committee that two Committee members had helped to administer this treatment at one...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1117 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1117 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Southport (Dr. Pugh) for his contribution; as he said, when the matter w...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1114 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1114-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief, as I fully expect the amendments to be supported in all parts of the House. They d...
Speaker | 461 c1114 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments Nos. 10 to 12, 14, 16 to 21, 25, 27...
John Pugh | 461 c1152 (Link to this contribution) May I intervene simply to praise the work of YoungMinds and my sister-in-law, Kathryn Pugh, in parti...
Sandra Gidley | 461 c1150-2 (Link to this contribution) The Minister was clear, in as much as she is not going to accept my amendment No. 83 and asked me to...
Andrew Dismore | 461 c1150 (Link to this contribution) New clause 8, which is in my name, is designed to give effect to the recommendations in paragraphs 1...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1147-50 (Link to this contribution) I find myself for the second time this evening congratulating the Minister on having listened—at lon...
Madeleine Moon | 461 c1153 (Link to this contribution) That was where I was going next. YoungMinds and the children’s commissioner—a children’s commission...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1153 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend clarify whether organisations such as YoungMinds and the children’s commissioner...
Madeleine Moon | 461 c1153 (Link to this contribution) A significant number of changes have been made to the Bill, many of which will greatly improve menta...
Sandra Gidley | 461 c1152-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for declaring his interest, which he hinted at earlier. Without amendment of...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1145-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. We know that we can achieve such changes when people put their minds to it....
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1145 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady is asking what would happen if a tier 3 or tier 4 specialist was not available, I c...
Speaker | 461 c1142 (Link to this contribution) That is not a matter on which I can rule. It seems to me that the correct procedure is not via a poi...
Daniel Kawczynski | 461 c1142 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have just been informed by the chief executive of Shrewsb...
Speaker | 461 c1143 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: new clause 8—Age appropriate treatment ‘A...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1143 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1143-4 (Link to this contribution) New clause 4 and amendment No. 50 are the result of further consideration that we have given to age-...
Sandra Gidley | 461 c1145 (Link to this contribution) I am a little concerned about the wideness of the prescription. The Minister said that she expected ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1144-5 (Link to this contribution) One of the other changes that we are making will provide for a duty to ensure that people know what ...
Speaker | 461 c1142 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for making that situation clear. It is obviously worrying and o...
John Pugh | 461 c1175-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier). We are c...
Meg Hillier | 461 c1175 (Link to this contribution) I agree that there have been many scare stories about the Bill, which have not helped the general de...
Jeremy Corbyn | 461 c1174 (Link to this contribution) There is a serious problem of inequality. The number of black and identified minorities that make up...
Meg Hillier | 461 c1174 (Link to this contribution) I have already said that one of the main reasons for my interest in this matter is the inequalities ...
John Pugh | 461 c1174 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has mentioned the problem of patients who lack insight and do not go for voluntary tre...
Meg Hillier | 461 c1174 (Link to this contribution) I certainly do. Without going into details, I am representing individuals in a couple of cases, one ...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1172 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that if people are in the community under CTOs, there should be some parity...
Meg Hillier | 461 c1172-4 (Link to this contribution) I agree that everybody should be able to see their care plan and have some input into it. Perhaps th...
Meg Hillier | 461 c1171-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak broadly in favour of the Government position and against the amendments tabled by the ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1155 (Link to this contribution) No, my hon. Friend should not withdraw her amendment at this stage. The best thing would be to leave...
Andrew Dismore | 461 c1155-6 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 70, page 5, line 37, at end insert— ‘(aa) in subsection (3)— (i) after...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1154-5 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, there will still be a Labour Government. I thank the Committee chaired by my hon. Friend...
Evan Harris | 461 c1158 (Link to this contribution) As a member of the Joint Committee chaired by the hon. Gentleman, I have co-signed the amendment. I ...
Andrew Dismore | 461 c1156-8 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Minister of State has yet to convince us on the point with which our amendm...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1154 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) for his support. He talked abo...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1154 (Link to this contribution) We will be in government by then.
Charles Walker | 461 c1154 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak in this good-natured debate. I assure you and...
Andrew Dismore | 461 c1160 (Link to this contribution) I listened to what my right hon. Friend said, and in particular to her undertaking to give us rather...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1163 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Speaker | 461 c1163-6 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: New clause 14—Authority to treat communit...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1166-8 (Link to this contribution) I should particularly like to speak to new clause 13, but I shall also discuss new clause 14 and ame...
Andrew Dismore | 461 c1168-70 (Link to this contribution) I have tabled amendment No. 74, and amendments Nos. 75 to 78, which relate to child patients in the ...
Richard Taylor | 461 c1170-1 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak briefly to amendment No. 89, in my name and that of the hon. Member for Birmingham, Se...
Andrew Dismore | 461 c1158 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, whose professional background has enabled him to play an import...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1159 (Link to this contribution) I ask the House to support Government amendments Nos. 6 to 9, 35, 38, 40, 44, 47 and 48, which deal ...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1159 (Link to this contribution) I hear the point that the Minister makes; it was inevitable that she would make it. The five groups ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1159-60 (Link to this contribution) I certainly accept that some psychiatrists are worried about other people taking on the responsibili...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1199 (Link to this contribution) Having listened carefully to the Minister, I want to press the new clause to a vote. Question put, ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1199 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give way, because the debate has to finish soon. Concern has been expressed that a SOAD ma...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1194 (Link to this contribution) As we have always said, it is difficult to prove a negative. We do not know what the outcome would h...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1198-9 (Link to this contribution) I really need to go through these provisions and address some of the points that the hon. Lady has h...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1197-8 (Link to this contribution) The amendment does not provide for that. All the safeguards that I have outlined cover the matter. W...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1196 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister genuinely saying that she would be happy if a patient were on a CTO after three year...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1196 (Link to this contribution) That is not true. I have already said that 85 per cent. of people who work in mental health services...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1196 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is trying to caricature the amendment, which responds to matters that she raised in the...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1195 (Link to this contribution) Essentially, we do not believe that the amendment is necessary, given that we have moved so far in t...
Lynne Jones | 461 c1194-5 (Link to this contribution) I can certainly see that there is a role for CTOs. I did not get the impression that the psychiatris...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1193 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady has prayed in aid certain groups of professionals who are in favour of CTOs. It ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1193 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Lady, but then I must make progress.
Charles Walker | 461 c1193 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I can be helpful, but I will not try deliberately to be unhelpful. I met an outst...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1193 (Link to this contribution) Many surveys of patients in other countries say that they and their carers like the use of supervise...
Jeremy Corbyn | 461 c1192 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will have heard my earlier intervention on the hon. Member for Southport (Dr. Pugh). Do...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1191-2 (Link to this contribution) Scottish psychiatrists have had similar powers to those that we propose for many years, and I think ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1192 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point about people being deterred from seeking treatment, but one...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1193-4 (Link to this contribution) I have made it clear over and over again—I hope that the hon. Gentleman acknowledges that, because t...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1194 (Link to this contribution) If CTOs are so vital to prevent suicides or to prevent homicides, can the Minister cite a study anyw...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1190-1 (Link to this contribution) I hope to be able to deal with that question, because it relates to the points that the hon. Gentlem...
Charles Walker | 461 c1190 (Link to this contribution) I am not being argumentative and I hope that the right hon. Lady will take my question in the spirit...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1191 (Link to this contribution) The meeting was set up in that form because the hon. Gentleman asked whether there were psychiatrist...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1191 (Link to this contribution) I certainly apologise if the Minister thought that I was unduly aggressive. The point that I was mak...
Jim Devine | 461 c1191 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way, and I see my good friend on the Opposition Ben...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1191 (Link to this contribution) I give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Livingston (Mr. Devine).
Tim Loughton | 461 c1187 (Link to this contribution) If there was a very real need to achieve what these measures are trying to achieve, there would have...
Doug Naysmith | 461 c1187 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way; he is being very generous. I rise to back up what my hon....
Tim Loughton | 461 c1187-8 (Link to this contribution) I greatly respect the hon. Gentleman’s position—he and I have been heavily involved in this issue fr...
Lynne Jones | 461 c1188 (Link to this contribution) It is unfortunate that the hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier) raised the cu...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1188 (Link to this contribution) They had every opportunity to influence the position of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the M...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1189-90 (Link to this contribution) We have had a thorough debate. I hope that I will be able to address all the concerns that hon. Memb...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1188-9 (Link to this contribution) Well, he was flown back at Government expense. I do not have a copy of the Minister’s admission, but...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1190 (Link to this contribution) In a number of jurisdictions where conditions are set, they can extend to specifying certain activit...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1190 (Link to this contribution) The Government have changed their position. Which other country has CTOs that require people to abst...
Sandra Gidley | 461 c1181-2 (Link to this contribution) I want to speak briefly to amendments Nos. 84, 85 and 86, which I tabled. Amendments Nos. 84 and 85...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1182-5 (Link to this contribution) The preceding speeches proved to be rather like a series of wind-up speeches. I am sure that the Min...
Jeremy Corbyn | 461 c1180 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should remember that many of the people who do not take their medicine as regular...
Charles Walker | 461 c1180-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point. I recall that many years ago when I was a young man the...
Charles Walker | 461 c1180 (Link to this contribution) If we want section 25A orders to be used more widely, perhaps we should direct people to my hon. Fri...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1186-7 (Link to this contribution) That is right, and at no stage have we had an explanation of why these orders are not working as the...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1186 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend was present when I asked about the application of section 25A orders. If it has been ...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1185-6 (Link to this contribution) That is not a ringing endorsement of CTOs, nor does it endorse the Government position. I do not wa...
Meg Hillier | 461 c1185 (Link to this contribution) It is my good fortune that I have in front of me the question MH 54 that was submitted to the Commit...
Charles Walker | 461 c1179 (Link to this contribution) That is a very long question and I do not think I can remember every aspect of it, but I shall try v...
Meg Hillier | 461 c1179 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about a whole new system, but in my comments I highlighted the fact that th...
Charles Walker | 461 c1179 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps we can hold up the hon. Lady’s constituency as an example of best practice.
Baroness Browning | 461 c1179 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier) may have been referring to a recent ...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1180 (Link to this contribution) I do not know the exact number, but I raised it only last week with the psychiatrist whom the Minist...
Charles Walker | 461 c1180 (Link to this contribution) But I am sure my hon. Friend will correct me if I am wrong.
Meg Hillier | 461 c1180 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman know how widely the powers have been used? I was talking not merely about my...
Charles Walker | 461 c1180 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. If such powers already exist, we should be asking why they ...
Charles Walker | 461 c1180 (Link to this contribution) Actually, I do know. We covered the matter at some length in Committee and the view was that the pow...
John Pugh | 461 c1177 (Link to this contribution) I share the view of the hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch that there is no evidence for ...
Charles Walker | 461 c1177-8 (Link to this contribution) I raised my concerns about community treatment orders in Committee and, with the indulgence of the H...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1178 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will recall that when CTOs were first talked about in the Chamber, they were referred...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1178 (Link to this contribution) Psychiatric ASBOs—and I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is as astute as ever on the Front Bench a...
Lynne Jones | 461 c1179 (Link to this contribution) I am rather perplexed by the hon. Gentleman’s argument. By and large, the people we are talking abou...
James Duddridge | 461 c1176 (Link to this contribution) Early in his contribution, the hon. Gentleman referred to amendment No. 101 on ECT. I am not sure wh...
Jeremy Corbyn | 461 c1177 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the prospect of compulsory treatment might actually be a deterre...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1096 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. During debates on the Mental Capacity Bill, we were able to give assurances...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1099-100 (Link to this contribution) I will in a second. The changes we are making to the Bill give patients a new right to apply to the...
Meg Hillier | 461 c1111-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker; I am glad to know that it is not just me who makes that kind of slip ...
Charles Walker | 461 c1178-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. We are perhaps in danger of commanding mental health armies...
Speaker | 461 c1156 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: amendment No. 93, page 5, line 37, at end ...
Meg Hillier | 461 c1187 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for being generous in giving way again. On speaking to consultant psychia...
John Pugh | 461 c1176-7 (Link to this contribution) I have spoken about the topic for a considerable time already; I am fearful of acquiring a reputatio...
Madeleine Moon | 461 c1121-2 (Link to this contribution) I want briefly to express my gratitude for the acceptance of the new clause in the revised Bill. I w...
Ian Gibson | 461 c1145 (Link to this contribution) Has the model not been set in cancer services, where charities such as the Teenage Cancer Trust have...
Lynne Jones | 461 c1175 (Link to this contribution) I agree with much of what my hon. Friend says, but one factor affecting the disproportionate number ...
Lord Boswell of Aynho | 461 c1144 (Link to this contribution) The Minister makes a case that we find congenial, as she will have noticed because we have put our n...
Subjects
Carers Advocacy Patients' rights Psychiatric patients Mental health services Mental health
Legislation
Mental Health Bill (HL) 2006-07
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