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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reforming the Mental Health Act to include mandatory care for people suffering from addiction.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reforming the Mental Health Act to include mandatory care for people suffering from addiction.
We have not made a formal assessment. For the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983, drug or alcohol addiction are not considered to be mental disorders. This is stated in section 1(3) of the Act. The reforms to the Act proposed in the Government’s White Paper, published in January, respond directly to the recommendations made by Sir Simon Wessely’s independent review of the Mental Health Act. The review’s terms of reference, as set by the Government, did not extend to a consideration of including addiction within the provisions of the Act.
This government is committed to cutting crime, by improving how we protect the public from serious offenders and by tackling repeat offending. On Saturday 26 June we took a key step forward in delivering those aims with the launch of a new unified Probation Service for England and Wales. The...
This government is committed to cutting crime, by improving how we protect the public from serious offenders and by tackling repeat offending. On Saturday 26 June we took a key step forward in delivering those aims with the launch of a new unified Probation Service for England and Wales. The...
My right honourable friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Robert Buckland) has made the following Written Statement.
"This government is committed to cutting crime, by improving how we protect the public from serious offenders and by tackling repeat offending. On Saturday 26 June we took a key...
My right honourable friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Robert Buckland) has made the following Written Statement.
"This government is committed to cutting crime, by improving how we protect the public from serious offenders and by tackling repeat offending. On Saturday 26 June we took a key...