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HANSARDMental Health Treatment and SupportIt has been a pleasure to work with the hon. Member on the draft Mental Health Bill. However, as I will say later in my speech, I have little confidence that the draft Mental…07 Jun 2023HANSARDMental Health Treatment and SupportMy hon. Friend makes a powerful point; he is right. It is also a false economy because of the impact mental ill health has on families. Not investing in one person’s mental ill…07 Jun 2023HANSARDMental Health Treatment and SupportI invite the hon. Member to have a look at the plans we already have in place. She will be pleased to learn that one of our pledges is the provision of a mental health specialist…07 Jun 2023HANSARDMental Health Treatment and SupportMy hon. Friend is spot on in making the point, very articulately, that prevention is our watchword. It is vital that we have mental health access hubs in every community to give…07 Jun 2023HANSARDComplex Mental Health Needs: Young PeopleA 14-year old climbing out of hospital windows; a child absconding to a local railway station; a teenager with complex needs brought to A&E, requiring four police officers to…06 Jun 2023HANSARDNHS AppointmentsI do, too.25 Apr 2023HANSARDUrgent and Emergency CareThis may surprise you, Mr Speaker, but I have found evidence that the Health Secretary has got something right. He recently hailed the power of local news outlets, and he was spot…25 Apr 2023HANSARDAccess to Mental Health ServicesThere is a mental health staffing crisis of the Government’s own making. Figures out last week show that there are more than 28,000 mental health vacancies in our NHS, which is up…07 Mar 2023HANSARDEating Disorders Awareness WeekWithout a shadow of a doubt, not investing in a person with a mental health need often has a knock-on impact on four, five or six members of the family. Ultimately, we then need…28 Feb 2023HANSARDEating Disorders Awareness WeekWhat a pleasure it is to close for the Opposition with you in the Chair, Ms Harris. I thank the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse) for bringing forward this debate; I am…28 Feb 2023HANSARDAutism and ADHD AssessmentsWhat a pleasure it is to close for the Opposition with you in the Chair, Dame Angela. I thank the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Elliot Colburn) and the Petitions…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Draft Mental Health Bill 2022I thank all those patients, campaigners and experts who provided evidence to the Joint Committee. I give special thanks to Alexis Quinn, whose account of her own lived experience…26 Jan 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce: Retention and RecruitmentIn mental health we rely on staff, not shiny machinery, so why is the Secretary of State rehashing old announcements and scrapping plans? It is because the Government have run out…24 Jan 2023HANSARDEye HealthIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma, and to respond on behalf of the shadow Health and Social Care team. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Strangford…15 Dec 2022HANSARDHospital Bed CapacityThe current state of mental health treatment sees increasing numbers of people languishing on waiting lists becoming more and more unwell, 1.1 million adults denied treatment, and…06 Dec 2022HANSARD Abuse and Deaths in Secure Mental Health UnitsIt pains me that we are here again after failings in patient care and I send my heartfelt condolences to all the families affected. Emily Moore, Nadia Sharif, Christie Harnett:…03 Nov 2022HANSARD Abuse and Deaths in Secure Mental Health Units(Urgent Question ): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care if he will make a statement on abuse and deaths in secure mental health units.03 Nov 2022HANSARDMental Health ServicesIn the last four weeks, there have been three investigations on abuse in in-patient mental health settings. The Government should be on top of the situation, not relying on…01 Nov 2022HANSARD Edenfield Centre: Treatment of PatientsI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bury South (Christian Wakeford) for his work with the families who have been affected. I want to pick up on a point of clarification, if I…13 Oct 2022HANSARDTributes to Her Late Majesty The QueenThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am truly humbled to follow what was, quite frankly, one of the most beautiful outpourings of love I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.…09 Sept 2022