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HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 62 in this group, which is in my name, and I will try to be as brief as possible. This group is all about the statutory care and treatment…22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendments 65 and 133, in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Scriven, are both about tackling racial injustices in the operation of the Act. I am sympathetic to…22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, my Amendments 50 and 51 are both about the importance of non-drug-based interventions. As the noble Earl, Lord Howe, said, this group is all about maximising therapeutic…22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I shall make a few points in response to the amendments that we have been discussing in this group. The noble Baroness, Lady May, made, very powerfully, an incredibly compelling…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 102, 105 and 106 in my name. These amendments all deal with extending the provision of advocacy services to informal patients below the age…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, this is an important set of amendments, and, as the noble Earl, Lord Howe, said, they are central to decisions about whether to detain people under the Act. I agree that…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I think that I am speaking in the right group. Amendments 45 and 48 are in my name, and although they are in this group, they are of a rather different nature. They are…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I want briefly to make a couple of comments on this important group. As everyone has acknowledged, an absolutely vital change to the Bill is that, in the future, people…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I thank the noble Baroness for her extremely comprehensive but very helpful response to all the amendments, and I am happy to withdraw.14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 13 in my name in this group, but wish to add my support to the amendments that have already been talked about: those in the names of my noble…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response. I also thank other noble Lords who have participated in this debate. For me, the nub of this grouping has been the whole issue of…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I will also speak to Amendments 27 and 32 in my name. My amendments all relate to children and young people, but this group also includes important amendments in the…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, in moving Amendment 1 standing in my name, I will also speak to Amendment 3 in my name. There are other important amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady…14 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformMy Lords, the Darzi review estimated the impact of delayed discharges at some 13% of total hospital beds. Given this, can the Minister say how confident she is that the immediate…07 Jan 2025HANSARDUkraine: Humanitarian AssistanceTo ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have for enhanced humanitarian assistance for the people of Ukraine this winter, and in particular for mental health, energy and…12 Dec 2024HANSARDUkraine: Humanitarian AssistanceMy Lords, can I just ask the Minister whether he will meet me in the new year to discuss the particular support for mental health?12 Dec 2024HANSARDUkraine: Humanitarian AssistanceMy Lords, we have recently had two major debates on the current situation in Ukraine. They concentrated mainly on the geopolitics of the conflict, the scale of NATO and EU…12 Dec 2024