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HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)I understand the hon. Gentleman’s point. Unfortunately, we have to cover everybody with an amendment such as this, otherwise we end up with exclusions left, right and centre. We…22 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair again, Mr Austin. As I reflect on what my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak was saying, I recollect that we were getting…22 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)Will the Minister indicate what the code of practice will say in that respect?22 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)I find it incomprehensible that any emergency authorisation would need to last longer than 14 days. An emergency is just that: it is a serious, unexpected and often dangerous…22 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)Will the Minister give way?22 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)The Committee is going to get this example whether it wants it or not. The case went to court, and the judge accepted the evidence and ordered that the cared-for person be…22 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)That is most certainly the case. I go back to my Second Reading speech. This is about the individual. This is about one of the most serious things we can do as a nation to…22 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)I think the imperative is the other way around. It is important for us to have the understanding of what the Government are proposing and their attitude to the review, so that we…22 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)I very much commend the work of organisations from the grassroots right through to the national level. The reason I sat down with people from my local authority before the start…22 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)I share my hon. Friend’s paranoia. I do not understand why we would put any barriers at all in the way of people’s having a proper assessment within a reasonable time. Detaining…22 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I hope that my hon. Friend agrees that my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak does himself down, because this is a good amendment. He is actually doing the Minister a…17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)Age UK agrees with my hon. Friend’s point and proposes an extension to it, through the involvement of an AMCP every time a family member objects, or if the cared-for person has no…17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship again, Mr Austin. As I said in a previous sitting, children and young people have always been my focus in politics, and the…17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)That is very much the case. I always try to place myself into such a situation. I am at the grandfather stage of life now, and I think about how that would affect the children of…17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)As colleagues may remember, on Tuesday I mentioned my past as a journalist, public relations manager and communications manager—something, I have found out, that I share with you,…17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I still consider it to be an honourable profession.17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)A noble profession. We have brought tremendous expertise to this place as a result.17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I have no experience, however, as a health or medical practitioner, so I bow to my next-door neighbour in the north-east of England, my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton South,…17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)He does. I know that if I were to develop cancer, oncologists would be involved. I know that medical experts should be and are involved with that level of illness, which requires…17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)Indeed; that applies to this Bill as well. We are dealing with the most serious issue possible—the right of the authorities to deprive someone of their liberty—so we must get it…17 Jan 2019