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HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I give my strong support to the noble Lord, Lord Scriven, asking for a road map, which I think is the political phrase we use now, to get to where we want to be. I…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, as the noble Earl, Lord Howe, has mentioned, we will be talking about risk factors in the next group but one, and I will not go into the statistics and predictions at…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I wrote the amendment in a terrible hurry as a compromise amendment when I could not table the amendment that I really wished to table, which was seeking to get back to having…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]Does the noble Baroness accept that, in talking about treatment, we are talking about care, education and training in social circumstances? Treatment is not about medication,…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 49 on this issue. I do not disagree with anything that has been said about the vital need for communication and to ensure that the patient…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I entirely agree with the noble Lord. However, the reality is that the responsible clinician, as mentioned in Amendment 49 to Clause 10, has a wide range of roles. It is very…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]Can I just add to what the noble Lord, Lord Kamall, just said? I have never before sat through a Committee where the Minister has been restricted in going beyond any advisory…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I would say that all mental disorders are different but that they cannot all have their own Acts of Parliament. I do not accept that autism is different. Of course, it is…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I have an amendment in this group but I want to speak particularly to the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, and to thank the noble Baroness, Lady…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I agree with the noble Lord, but the reality is that we use DSM-3 and ICD-11 in the international classification of disorders. If we in Britain are to go outside that, for reasons…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]What does the noble Lord think will happen to the people in the gap?14 Jan 2025HANSARDHumanist MarriagesMy Lords, it may be an anomaly, but there are now 350 religious organisations in this country which are registered to conduct weddings. In 2013, an order was laid in Parliament…02 Dec 2024HANSARDCivil Service: PoliticisationMy Lords, I add my voice to thank my noble friend Lord Butler for introducing this debate. I hovered on the edge of one arm of the Civil Service, in the shape of the Department of…28 Nov 2024HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, this is a long-overdue Bill, as many have said, and I hope it will progress through the House as quickly as possible. Quite why it has taken six years for Sir Simon…25 Nov 2024HANSARDSocial Care StrategyMy Lords, the helpful House of Lords Library briefing paper by Eve Collyer Merritt started with great clarity. The opening statement was: “Social care services help people living…10 Oct 2024HANSARDNHS: Long-term SustainabilityMy Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Pitkeathley, this morning I was reminiscing about the number of NHS debates I have taken part in since I came here 20 years ago. It is at…18 Apr 2024HANSARDDementiaMy Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Browning, I am proud to be an ambassador for the Alzheimer’s Society. I spent my entire working life as a psychiatrist, working with older…18 Jan 2024HANSARDCare Home StaffingMy Lords, does the Minister not agree that, while the increase of 70,000 people is very welcome, it is in the context of a turnover of nearly 400,000 every year in care because of…18 Jan 2024HANSARDBiosecurity and Infectious DiseasesMy Lords, the House has not seen much of me this last year, because last year I was one of the 100,000 people to be admitted to hospital in the UK with cellulitis, going on to…18 Jan 2024