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HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I will try to draw together some of the strands that we have been discussing in this debate. When the Minister responds, please will she share with the Committee the…24 Feb 2025HANSARDWomen’s Health StrategyMy Lords, women’s health hubs have proved enormously popular with practitioners, who are able to give multiple treatments in one session, and with women, who no longer have to…04 Feb 2025HANSARDRoyal Albert Hall Bill [HL]My Lords, I apologise for being momentarily late, and point out that I have to chair the Grand Committee at 5.15 pm, so I hope that our deliberations will have concluded by then.…29 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]The crucial question that the noble Baroness is asking is around which staff can access this information and where. That means that the information in the ACD has to be always…27 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendments 117 and 125 in this group are in my name. I tabled them in part to reflect what happened during the work of the scrutiny committee. We had long discussions…27 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, this is an interesting collection of amendments. I suggest that they are all slightly flawed but with good intent behind them. In relation to Amendment 99 in the name of…27 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendment 60A. At this time of night, I do not intend to make a very long or detailed speech; I simply wish to make two points. Previous…22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I make two specific points in response to what the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, said. The amendments refer to Section 24 of the Mental Capacity Act,…22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, now is not the time to have the extensive debate that the noble Baroness, Lady Murphy, has opened up. I said right at the outset that we are talking about legislation…22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the Minister very much. I will not delay the Committee for very long, particularly given the time of night and that people are screaming to go home. However,…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 34. As I do so, I extend my condolences to the noble Baroness, Lady Hollins. We miss her very much today. She was extremely helpful to me…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for her characteristically full and attentive response. I understand why she is not too enamoured by my amendment, and I do not intend to push that much…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, in speaking to my Amendment 49A, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady May, for her amendments. Those of us on the joint scrutiny committee spent a lot of time focusing on…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]Would the Minister reflect on this? CTOs were brought in under the 2007 Act. The then Labour Government went shopping around the world for various different models of CTOs and…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]This is a key point for a lot of the amendments that noble Lords have asked about. Can the Minister write to all noble Lords with more detail of the training programme—its…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I do not want to bore people who were not present 20 years ago when we were discussing the introduction of this measure, but the main focus of our discussion was that…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, since this is the first time during our proceedings that I propose something, I declare an interest as a member of an advisory panel for Rethink Mental Illness in an…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I thank the Minister and welcome that. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.14 Jan 2025