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HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)Much of our conversation on the Bill has so far focused on the role of approved mental capacity professionals, when they should be appointed and who they should be. We have given…17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I absolutely agree. My hon. Friend makes such a good point. The Minister in the Lords, Baroness Stedman-Scott, said: “We are clear that our intention is for approved mental…17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I agree, and it is words like those that we have a problem with. The Government have said that there will be guidance in the code of practice that will address what that means and…17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)The Opposition believe, as the debate has shown, that the amendment would be a crucial safeguard. We have spent a lot of time discussing the code of practice, which is beginning…17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)As we have discussed, the AMCP is likely to be engaged only in high-risk cases anyway, so we are not proposing something burdensome. The meeting need only be a few minutes long; I…17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I beg to move amendment 40, in schedule 1, page 17, line 2, at end insert— “23A If the Approved Mental Capacity Professional determines that— (a) the authorisation conditions are…17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)Thank you for making that clear, Mr Pritchard. It is a small Bill, but grouping some of the amendments is quite difficult. Our amendments set out what would happen if an AMCP…17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I will speak to amendment 44, which appears in my name, and refer to the amendments tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak, although I am mindful of the…17 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)We have had a very useful debate. It has been really helpful to hear the useful contributions from my hon. Friends, although I have to say it is very quiet on the Minister’s side.…15 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)That is helpful, Mr Austin. We have already touched on independent hospitals, but there is so much more to say. Amendment 19 deals with the extremely important and troubling issue…15 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for introducing his amendment. Through the progress of the Bill, we are discussing the circumstances where it is appropriate to deprive someone of their…15 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I agree with my hon. Friend, and we will talk specifically about that later. The Court of Protection exercises powers under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, under section 25 of the…15 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)It was not clear to me that you wanted me to speak to my group of amendments, Mr Austin, but I understand that now. Some Committee members have not been on a Bill Committee…15 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I have nothing to add.15 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Briefly, if the Minister had done what I asked her to do on Second Reading, and what 40 organisations asked her to do, and paused the Bill, she would have had time to develop the…15 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I will come to this in more detail later, but constantly referring to a code of practice we have not seen is not helping us here. We are trying to make sure that the Bill is fit…15 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis Government’s cuts to council budgets have meant that 100,000 fewer people received publicly funded social care over the past three years, and 90 people a day died while…15 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I cannot see anything other than that self-funders would end up paying it. Self-funders might not just end up paying it for themselves; they might be paying it for everybody else…15 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Austin. I look forward to the hours of important debate we have ahead of us on the Bill. Let us hope the temperature in the…15 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Are you allowing summing up on this group, Mr Austin?15 Jan 2019