Mental Health Bill (HL). Lords Committee stage fifth day. Clauses 39 to 47 agreed to. Schedules 6 to 10 agreed to. Bill reported with amendments (HL Bill 34).
Mental Health Bill [HL]
Committee of the Whole House (HL)
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Debate on bills on Monday, 29 January 2007,
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Mental Health Bill (HL) . Explanatory Notes also published (HL Bill 1-EN )
Thursday, 16 November 2006
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Thursday, 16 November 2006
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Proceeding contributions
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 689 c100-1 (Link to this contribution)
I am extremely pleased to hear that. I hope he is therefore able to make his speech tomorrow night, ...
Baroness Barker | 689 c101 (Link to this contribution)
Is the Minister able to tell us which local authority she was referring to? As she will know, reside...
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Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 689 c101 (Link to this contribution)
I do not have the information on that, but I will either get it or write to the noble Baroness. She ...
Earl Howe | 689 c105 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Minister for explaining the Government’s position. Of course I take note of it. I am par...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 689 c103-5 (Link to this contribution)
I gather that available in the Printed Paper Office are the draft regulations relevant to the appoin...
Baroness Barker | 689 c105 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 66:
66: Schedule 6 , page 107, leave out lines 7 to 29
The noble Baroness sai...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 689 c102 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the noble Baroness for that endorsement. I hope that she recognises that it is an a...
Baroness Barker | 689 c102 (Link to this contribution)
Hampshire is a large county with established residential and nursing care provision. It also has qui...
Earl Howe | 689 c103 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 65A:
65A: Schedule 6 , page 103, line 28, leave out from ““representative”” to...
Baroness Murphy | 689 c103 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Minister for that careful reply. She has in part addressed at least some of my concerns ...
Baroness Barker | 689 c107 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 67:
67: Schedule 6 , page 109, line 29, at end insert—
““Duty to provide a sec...
Baroness Murphy | 689 c107-8 (Link to this contribution)
I support this amendment. There is a tendency to think of these proposals as another imminent job cr...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 689 c105-6 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the noble Baroness. The amendments take us back to our previous discussion about th...
Baroness Barker | 689 c106 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Minister for her full reply. I will have to go away and consider it, because we are talk...
Baroness Barker | 689 c111-3 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 72:
72: Before Clause 40 , insert the following new Clause—
““Code of practice...
Baroness Barker | 689 c111 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the noble Baroness for that reply. I hope that in her consideration she will take into accou...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 689 c110-1 (Link to this contribution)
I am very grateful for this piece of opportunism from the noble Baroness, Lady Barker, and from the ...
Baroness Barker | 689 c110 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 71A:
71A: After Clause 39, insert the following new Clause—
““Amendment to sec...
Baroness Barker | 689 c109-10 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the noble Baroness for her answer. I am not wholly convinced by it for two key reasons. Firs...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 689 c108-9 (Link to this contribution)
As the noble Baroness, Lady Barker, said, we debated many of these issues at great length. In prepar...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 689 c98 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I beg to move that the House do now again resolve itself into Committee on this Bill.
Mov...
Baroness Murphy | 689 c100 (Link to this contribution)
The noble Lord, Lord Rix, has been discharged from hospital and is now resting at home. He hopes to ...
Earl Howe | 689 c99-100 (Link to this contribution)
I support the amendment. The Minister will know that there are many opportunities for review of an a...
Baroness Barker | 689 c99 (Link to this contribution)
In the absence of the noble Lords, Lord Rix and Lord Adebowale, I wish to speak to the amendment for...
Baroness Barker | 689 c117 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the noble Earl for his intervention. Different Ministers employ different practices with let...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 689 c116-7 (Link to this contribution)
I am sorry to hear that. I have signed an awful lot of letters. I will ensure that all of them are c...
Earl Howe | 689 c116 (Link to this contribution)
I am sure that the Committee will be very grateful to the Minister for making that correction. I mak...
Baroness Barker | 689 c118 (Link to this contribution)
If my information is correct, the procedures for change are set out in Section 118 of the 1983 Act.
Baroness Barker | 689 c117 (Link to this contribution)
That just goes to show that practice varies.
I thank noble Lords who have taken part in this debate...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 689 c117 (Link to this contribution)
In my defence, I think that it is four and a half years since I took a Bill through your Lordships' ...
Baroness Murphy | 689 c113 (Link to this contribution)
I rise to add my voice in support of the amendment and that of the noble Lord, Lord Rix, who cannot ...
Earl Howe | 689 c113 (Link to this contribution)
As the noble Baroness, Lady Barker, observed, we have reached one of the most significant amendments...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 689 c119-20 (Link to this contribution)
Of course we will debate the code again on Report, and I will reflect on this debate. I hope that th...
Baroness Barker | 689 c118-9 (Link to this contribution)
Indeed, but the point we on this side of the Committee are seeking to make is that the scope which i...
Baroness Barker | 689 c120 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Minister; that was helpful. We will go away and give due consideration to each other’s v...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 689 c118 (Link to this contribution)
With respect, the law is clear and the judgment has been made. It may be by three to two, but that i...
Baroness Barker | 689 c118 (Link to this contribution)
Given that the code of practice deals with matters such as seclusion and restraint and that the righ...
Baroness Murphy | 689 c98-9 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 62:
62: Schedule 6 , page 82, line 3, leave out ““1 year”” and insert ““6 mont...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 689 c113-6 (Link to this contribution)
This has been a short though very interesting debate. As both the noble Baroness, Lady Barker, and t...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 689 c100 (Link to this contribution)
I say to the noble Earl, ““Very good””. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Murphy, for moving the amen...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 689 c117-8 (Link to this contribution)
Just to correct that, I was referring to the fact that we have flexibility within the primary legisl...
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