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Debate on bill on Tuesday, 19 June 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness Winterton of Doncaster. The answering member was Tim Loughton.

Mental Health Bill [Lords]

Mental Health Bill (HL). Report stage second day. New Clause 12 negatived on division (206 votes to 289). New Clause 11 debated and withdrawn. Amendment to Clause 3 negatived on division (196 votes to 282). Third reading debate. Agreed to on division (272 votes to 202). Bill passed with amendments.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
461 c1275-350, (corrigendum) 1616;461 c1275-350 
Session
2006-07
Department
Department of Health
Legislative stage
Third reading
Report stage
Procedure
New clauses
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Corrigendum
Thursday, 21 June 2007
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 461 c1310 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman should not use such terminology in the House. Perhaps he will withdraw tha...
Ann Coffey | 461 c1276 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend confirm that the amendment would certainly enable people with personality disord...
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Chris Bryant | 461 c1276 (Link to this contribution) I believe that there have been instances since 1983, and that there were certainly instances before,...
Speaker | 461 c1275 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 2, page 4, line 18, after ...
Chris Bryant | 461 c1275-6 (Link to this contribution) The amendments are in my name and that of all the Back-Bench Labour members of the Committee—I hope ...
Chris Bryant | 461 c1275 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 1, page 4, line 16, leave out"‘In section 145(1) of the 1983 Act (interp...
Chris Bryant | 461 c1277 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who has made a valid point. We should consider not only people who ...
Meg Hillier | 461 c1277 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend comment on the situation of one of my constituents, who murdered a man? The murd...
Chris Bryant | 461 c1277-8 (Link to this contribution) I return to the first principle that I articulated, namely that no psychiatric unit should be a pris...
Evan Harris | 461 c1277 (Link to this contribution) I am a little concerned by something that the hon. Gentleman has said. Will he accept—I declare an i...
Chris Bryant | 461 c1278-9 (Link to this contribution) I will go on to articulate more about why the concept of purpose embodies an element of likelihood. ...
Evan Harris | 461 c1278 (Link to this contribution) I support the general direction in which the hon. Gentleman is going but remain a little concerned. ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1311 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will tell me how many people whom we treat now it is acceptable not t...
Speaker | 461 c1316 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss amendment No. 88, page 39, line 20, in clause 41, at end ...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1316-8 (Link to this contribution) We have only a little time left to consider the final groups of amendments, and I am sure hon. Membe...
Charles Walker | 461 c1318 (Link to this contribution) I rise to move amendment No. 88. I have never moved an amendment in the House before and I cannot th...
Speaker | 461 c1318 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman may speak about amendment No. 88, but he is not moving it at this time. At...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1311 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister think it acceptable that 1,300 people commit suicide now? If it is all so rosy und...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1311 (Link to this contribution) That is a ridiculous argument. The hon. Gentleman has said that we should prevent people from commit...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1311-2 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has used her usual tactics of trying to confuse the Opposition into submission. Why is ...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1316 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Tim Loughton | 461 c1309 (Link to this contribution) They are not real people. Those are completely hypothetical figures that the Minister is characteris...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1310 (Link to this contribution) I am confused, because the hon. Gentleman has distanced himself from the points made by the Conserva...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1310 (Link to this contribution) I will, of course, withdraw ““misrepresent””, but there is still some confusion about what I have sa...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1310 (Link to this contribution) Yes. We are talking about compulsory treatment. That is exactly the point that the hon. Member for E...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1310 (Link to this contribution) That is scaremongering and disingenuous argument of the worst kind. Which bit of the statement ““The...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1309-10 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman needs to look at the record tomorrow, because he said that the p...
Evan Harris | 461 c1310 (Link to this contribution) It is about not imposing treatment.
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1310-1 (Link to this contribution) I want to address some of the submissions about who would or would not get treatment. As I have said...
James Duddridge | 461 c1322 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has spoken eloquently about the period of time that a person might spend in a prison ce...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1322 (Link to this contribution) We have held discussions with representatives of the Police Federation and, if my memory serves me c...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1322 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the Minister’s response. I am particularly grateful for her invitation to my hon. ...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1322-3 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 91, page 2, line 24, leave out from ‘Act)’ to end of line 26 and insert ...
Speaker | 461 c1323 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendment: No. 69, page 2 , leave out line...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1323 (Link to this contribution) I shall try to be brief, because I know that others wish to speak—although the hon. Member for Hendo...
John Bercow | 461 c1323 (Link to this contribution) It is not only shoddy and ill-informed. My hon. Friend is right about that, but he expressed himself...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1323-4 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree. There was a slightly watered-down version of the same attack in the Sunday People,...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1324-7 (Link to this contribution) I accept the hon. Gentleman’s point, but we do not want to create a loophole that might allow paedop...
John Bercow | 461 c1319 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that warm words, though very welcome if forthcoming from the Minister, wil...
Charles Walker | 461 c1319 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point in his usual eloquent way. The amendment would allow the Hou...
Charles Walker | 461 c1318 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for your guidance. In my excitement, I was getting ahead of myself. I...
Brian Iddon | 461 c1319 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman recognise that the police would have great difficulty if they arrested a dru...
Charles Walker | 461 c1320 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that there will be difficulties of interpretation at the margins, but I come back to th...
Lord Redwood | 461 c1319 (Link to this contribution) Is there not another practical point? We heard from the Ministry of Justice today that police cells ...
Charles Walker | 461 c1319 (Link to this contribution) I understand where my right hon. Friend is coming from. It is just not right to take people who are ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1321 (Link to this contribution) I have been setting out what is in the Bill at the moment, but amendment No. 88 seeks to change some...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1320-1 (Link to this contribution) May I say that I understand the sentiments behind both these amending provisions, but that for reaso...
Lord Redwood | 461 c1321 (Link to this contribution) Would it be possible for the Minister to take away the more sensible words that she has used in the ...
Lynne Jones | 461 c1346-7 (Link to this contribution) I have no trouble in supporting the Government and voting for the Bill, as it is a substantial impro...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1345-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has clearly set out all the reasons why the Bill should be voted for. Does he agree t...
Brian Iddon | 461 c1346 (Link to this contribution) The Opposition will vote against it, which is sad. As with all proposed legislation, this Bill will ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1334 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. The Mental Health Act 1983—[Interruption.]...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1330-1 (Link to this contribution) The Minister’s arguments are not new and I do not accept them. The point that I made about our being...
Jeremy Corbyn | 461 c1329 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister confident that all the exclusions listed in amendment No. 91 are covered specificall...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1328 (Link to this contribution) Once again, we return to a topic that was a matter of considerable controversy and impassioned debat...
John Pugh | 461 c1327-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall also be brief. An essential difficulty in the legislation is the open nature of the term men...
Chris Bryant | 461 c1327 (Link to this contribution) You always say that before you call me, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and you do so with great wisdom. I shall...
Chris Bryant | 461 c1342-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister and congratulate her on two things. First, she has brought the legislation forw...
John Pugh | 461 c1341-2 (Link to this contribution) After a long journey, we have reached an interesting juncture. The Bill arrived in the Commons surro...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1339 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quite wrong to say that I have mentioned the Michael Stone case—I have not. I ...
Doug Naysmith | 461 c1341 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the Minister that we have held a series of excellent discussions on Second Reading, in ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1340 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has consistently failed to answer one question. He says that there will be people...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1335 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Mental Health Act 1983 is primarily about the circumstances in w...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1335 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I am glad that I was able to table a range of amendments on Report covering issues that ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1336 (Link to this contribution) We discussed autism not only in Committee, where the hon. Lady tabled a number of amendments, but wh...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1287 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that when we think about people who are detained, we may forget the spectr...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1287 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right and reflects the point that I was making. It is an unpredictable process, a...
Evan Harris | 461 c1287-8 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on the point that he is making and the way in which he is making i...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1288 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman, who has great experience of these matters through his own medical background, is...
Ann Coffey | 461 c1288 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Richard Taylor | 461 c1283 (Link to this contribution) I rise only to express my delight and amazement that the impassioned speech I had prepared to suppor...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1284-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) on assembling such a powerful co...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1286-7 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. My speech will take a little longer than the ...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1281 (Link to this contribution) I will speak briefly, because I want the Minister to have the opportunity of explaining why she is b...
Lord Boswell of Aynho | 461 c1281 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that ensuring the adequacy and attention of therapeutic treatments and int...
Chris Bryant | 461 c1280-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady because she has enticed me into my next paragraph. I know that many c...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1282 (Link to this contribution) I follow the hon. Gentleman’s argument about a more than 50 per cent. likelihood. I simply want the ...
John Pugh | 461 c1282-3 (Link to this contribution) The House owes the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) a deep debt of gratitude for providing a s...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1281-2 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. Various members of the Committee have acknowledged time and again that the relationship ...
Chris Bryant | 461 c1282 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman might recall that, in Committee, I originally suggested that we use the word ““in...
Lord Boswell of Aynho | 461 c1279 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a powerful case. Does he agree—I think that this is helpful to his argu...
Chris Bryant | 461 c1279-80 (Link to this contribution) As is so often the case, the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. It is a simple matter of logic that...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1309 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady is not saying that, that is fine; I shall give way to her.
Baroness Browning | 461 c1309 (Link to this contribution) The point that I was making is that these matters come down to judgments on the part of clinicians. ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1308 (Link to this contribution) Once again, the hon. Gentleman needs to look at the amendments that he is tabling. There is nothing ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1309 (Link to this contribution) No, not on that test, because the test does not exist at the moment. The hon. Lady would be introduc...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1309 (Link to this contribution) But the hon. Lady knows that we already detain people.
Evan Harris | 461 c1308 (Link to this contribution) The reasons are the same as those for which we do not impose physical treatment on patients who have...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1308 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has not identified who those people are. How will she predict who will be a serious ris...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1308 (Link to this contribution) Okay, we are now down to saying, ““Let’s treat it in the same way as we treat physical illness.”” Th...
Evan Harris | 461 c1304 (Link to this contribution) I will take only a few minutes because I understand that the Minister will want time to respond to t...
Ann Coffey | 461 c1304 (Link to this contribution) Is it the hon. Gentleman’s understanding that the impaired judgment test would use a lower threshold...
Evan Harris | 461 c1304-6 (Link to this contribution) The threshold is lower because I do not think that the supporters of new clause 12 would want people...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1306-7 (Link to this contribution) With the new clause we are back on familiar territory. An amendment was inserted originally in the o...
Evan Harris | 461 c1307 (Link to this contribution) I have a lot of respect for Earl Howe, but I do not tie myself to what he said. I agree with what th...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1308 (Link to this contribution) So the hon. Gentleman is now saying that he accepts that we should not allow people to harm others, ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1308 (Link to this contribution) I shall certainly give way to the hon. Gentleman if he can tell me why he feels that it is okay to p...
Ann Coffey | 461 c1303-4 (Link to this contribution) Does not the hon. Lady agree that it would be better if the same terminology was used throughout the...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1302-3 (Link to this contribution) The Minister shakes her head, but surely clinicians must make such decisions every day when dealing ...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1302 (Link to this contribution) In supporting the new clause, and following on from the hon. Gentleman’s question about who the peop...
Evan Harris | 461 c1301 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend certain that the criterion is that someone is suicidal or homicidal? He is using s...
John Pugh | 461 c1301-2 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but nobody would get sectioned because they did not wash themselves well or something like that...
Lynne Jones | 461 c1298-300 (Link to this contribution) The professionals involved do not think that there is confusion, and there are briefings that explai...
John Pugh | 461 c1300-1 (Link to this contribution) I am going to try to simplify things. The Mental Health Act 1983 laid down two conditions for detent...
Lynne Jones | 461 c1298 (Link to this contribution) In one sense it is different, because if a person lacks capacity, it is a more or less permanent con...
Ann Coffey | 461 c1298 (Link to this contribution) I have listened to the explanations given by my hon. Friend and the hon. Member for East Worthing an...
Ann Coffey | 461 c1298 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree with the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) that th...
James Duddridge | 461 c1297 (Link to this contribution) I was not able to meet the commission, which is why I asked other Members whether they had done so, ...
Lynne Jones | 461 c1297-8 (Link to this contribution) This is a serious issue. My hon. Friend the Member for Stockport (Ann Coffey) is concerned that we s...
James Duddridge | 461 c1297 (Link to this contribution) I understand the Minister’s point, but if a mental health patient has a different view about the eff...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1297 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman needs to differentiate a patient’s ability to contribute towards decisions about ...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1296 (Link to this contribution) I pointed out that a number of states already have an impaired decision-making test that has worked ...
Ann Coffey | 461 c1296 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but other countries have other mental health legislation; I am talking about the hon. Ge...
James Duddridge | 461 c1296 (Link to this contribution) Unlike the hon. Member for Stockport (Ann Coffey), I support new clause 12, which is well reasoned. ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1296-7 (Link to this contribution) That is exactly the point. The patient the hon. Gentleman describes had allowed herself to be admitt...
Ann Coffey | 461 c1295 (Link to this contribution) I want to expand a little on the point I was making earlier, as I do not think I got a very satisfac...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1294 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady does not mind, I was going to end there. I wanted to make a number of other points ...
Lynne Jones | 461 c1295 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can help my hon. Friend. The proposed test is different, as the term ““capacity”” relates ...
Ann Coffey | 461 c1295 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, the hon. Gentleman did say that the test was lower. Will he say, then, by how much it is...
Ann Coffey | 461 c1295 (Link to this contribution) I gave the hon. Gentleman every chance: he just did not manage a satisfactory response. The second ...
Ann Coffey | 461 c1296 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is proposing the new clause so it is his responsibility to explain what it means,...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1296 (Link to this contribution) In that case, why did the hon. Lady support community treatment orders yesterday? There is no eviden...
Ann Coffey | 461 c1295-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, but the Scottish provisions are as yet untested. When ...
Speaker | 461 c1292 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind hon. Members that there should be no reference to Strangers in any of the Galleries....
Tim Loughton | 461 c1292 (Link to this contribution) Game show like, my colleagues shout, ““Lower””, because it is a lower test—[Interruption.] You don’t...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1292 (Link to this contribution) I hope to be helpful to my hon. Friend by pointing out that within the context of mental health legi...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1292 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have lost my place, but I will try to plough on.
James Duddridge | 461 c1293 (Link to this contribution) The proposed test is a lower one, but my understanding is that the word ““capacity”” is used to refe...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1293 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Rather than going through that conversation again, I shall give way...
Evan Harris | 461 c1293 (Link to this contribution) I am trying to understand the point made by the hon. Member for Stockport (Ann Coffey). I was not a ...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1293 (Link to this contribution) That could be part of it, but the matter is not so straightforward.
Lynne Jones | 461 c1294 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Tim Loughton | 461 c1293-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall not give way for a while, as several conversations seem to be going on at the same time. Tho...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1291 (Link to this contribution) That is a fair point, because people’s conditions do fluctuate. That point was addressed in Committe...
Lynne Jones | 461 c1291 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, I have much sympathy with the amendment and I agree with the argument t...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1291 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I wish to make some progress. We could get very hung up on th...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1290 (Link to this contribution) That is the point that I have tried to make. If somebody has reached such a traumatic point in their...
Ann Coffey | 461 c1292 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman still has not addressed the point that I made earlier. Other parts of the Bill re...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1292 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is very keen. I will give way to her in a moment, when I have finished replying to the...
Ann Coffey | 461 c1292 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Tim Loughton | 461 c1292 (Link to this contribution) I have not met the commission recently, but I have read its submission. Its members have every reaso...
James Duddridge | 461 c1292 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has not yet referred to the Disability Rights Commission. Has he met representatives ...
Ann Coffey | 461 c1288 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman very much. I was simply going to point something out, through him, to the...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1288 (Link to this contribution) Hold on. I am trying to answer the hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris). Of course...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1289 (Link to this contribution) Does not the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 include a proposal such as this ...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1288-9 (Link to this contribution) In order to make some progress, perhaps the hon. Lady and the hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abing...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1290 (Link to this contribution) If the scenario is a crisis in the middle of the night, at which point help is being sought from the...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1290 (Link to this contribution) If the services are not available at the moment of crisis, having a piece of legislation that says t...
Brian Iddon | 461 c1289 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is arguing a fine line. The plain fact remains that many families have lost loved...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1289 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right on both counts, and I will touch on that issue briefly in a minute. As the M...
Brian Iddon | 461 c1290 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman also accept that it is all very well to say that the person should engage wi...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1289-90 (Link to this contribution) I would say to them that it is a tragedy, and that if suitable services had been available for their...
Chris Bryant | 461 c1324 (Link to this contribution) In my experience, newspapers apologise only if we force them to do so by means of the law. Having s...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1346 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is nodding her head, but apparently that is okay in Scotland.
Brian Iddon | 461 c1345 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the Minister. In some respects, this has been a very difficult Bill. Some of th...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1346 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for her generosity in spending time with me when I have asked to see her during...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1330 (Link to this contribution) We are not discussing that—[Interruption.] In fact, I said that most of the exceptions were not ment...
Evan Harris | 461 c1330 (Link to this contribution) But subsection (b) of the amendment—"““his sexual preference or gender identity””—" could clearly r...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1329 (Link to this contribution) I certainly accept that the hon. Gentleman has made a case for the exception of paedophilia. He says...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1329 (Link to this contribution) It would not be possible to detain people for their religious beliefs, because the Act states that p...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1328-9 (Link to this contribution) We are getting close, I admit, and maybe it is not such a bad idea. However, my point is that an ext...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1328 (Link to this contribution) Clearly. At the moment, there are three exclusions in the mental health legislation as it stands. Ou...
Speaker | 461 c1327 (Link to this contribution) Order. I should point out that there is very limited time left. I hope that speeches will be brief, ...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1339 (Link to this contribution) Before I give way to the Minister, I should say that if she did not mention the Michael Stone case, ...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1339 (Link to this contribution) If the Minister reads the record tomorrow, she will see that she mentioned the Michael Stone case. W...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1340 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is trying to repeat our previous, truncated debated. Her logic and analysis imply that,...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1339-40 (Link to this contribution) I entirely take the Minister’s point. I think that we are confusing Michaels and Johns; if that is m...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1337-9 (Link to this contribution) I echo the Minister’s words in saying that the Bill has provoked much debate and controversy, which ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1336-7 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. We have also had some very constructive dialogue with the new coalition of mental health org...
Speaker | 461 c1335 (Link to this contribution) Order. I apologise for interrupting the right hon. Lady, but it is quite unfair to the Minister at t...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1336 (Link to this contribution) This could be the last intervention that I make on the Bill. One of the amendments that the Minister...
Evan Harris | 461 c1330 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has said twice that she believes there are things listed as exemptions that are not tru...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 461 c1297 (Link to this contribution) We are talking about the status quo. Does the hon. Gentleman know of any cases brought by the DRC ag...
Sandra Gidley | 461 c1280 (Link to this contribution) Why did the hon. Gentleman use ““manifestation”” instead of ““sign””, which is commonly used in the ...
Baroness Browning | 461 c1304 (Link to this contribution) This is my fifth year of studying the reform of the Mental Health Act 1983. I served on the scrutiny...
James Duddridge | 461 c1297 (Link to this contribution) If the patient subsequently lost the ability to make a judgment, would doctors have to take their or...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1329 (Link to this contribution) I want to make three quick points. First, the principles to which the Minister referred are not on t...
Lord Boswell of Aynho | 461 c1343-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) paid me an entirely unmerited compliment in Committee. I ...
Tim Loughton | 461 c1287 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady debated that with us in Committee, and I shall respond to her points later. However, i...
Ann Coffey | 461 c1287 (Link to this contribution) There is something I do not understand. We are talking about a situation in which two clinicians hav...
Notes
Daily part printing error - col 1331 Division No 145, in the Ayes insert "Meale, Mr Alan".
Subjects
Disability Alcoholic drinks Community care Autism Compulsorily detained psychiatric patients Dangerous psychiatric patients Culture Diagnosis Finance Homicide Drugs Discrimination Ethnic groups Mental illness Medical treatments Northern Ireland Mentally disordered offenders Police custody Mental capacity Misuse Patients' rights Psychiatric patients Mental health services Mental health Prescriptions Paedophilia Scotland Religion Victims Sexuality Right of search Suicide Political doctrines Secure psychiatric units Community treatment orders Behaviour disorders
Legislation
Mental Health Bill (HL) 2006-07
Contains statistics
Yes
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