Mental Health Bill (HL). Lords Report stage first day. Part 2 of 2 records.
Mental Health Bill [HL]
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2006-07Legislative stage
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Lord Alderdice | 689 c945 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, if a responsible medical officer, be it a consultant psychiatrist or the patient’s general...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 689 c943-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, Amendments Nos. 5, 18, 19, 34, 37, 38, 41A, 42, 42A, 45A, 46A, 48, 49 and 50 concern key d...
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Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 689 c945 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I will seek clarification on that point from people more expert than I. However, it seems ...
Earl Howe | 689 c940-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I support all that the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, said, and I do not propose to repeat thos...
Lord Carlile of Berriew | 689 c939-40 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 5:
5: After Clause 5, insert the following new Clause—
““Renewal of detention
...
Lord Patel of Bradford | 689 c942-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall be brief. This debate centres on the legal requirement that detention under the me...
Baroness Meacher | 689 c942 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his amendment which definitely goes part of the way to a...
Lord Carlile of Berriew | 689 c936-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, first, I am grateful to the Minister for addressing the debate in such detail and for givi...
Lord Carlile of Berriew | 689 c937 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am very grateful for that, but the Government have had since March 2005, to take an impo...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 689 c933-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this has been a good debate. I was grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, for his kind ...
Lord Turnberg | 689 c933 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the words ““or effects”” are critical. If they mean the effects on the individual patient,...
Baroness Meacher | 689 c932-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I welcome almost all of the Government’s amendment, but I am concerned about the inclusion...
Lord Alderdice | 689 c932 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, Amendment No. 12 demonstrates how the Government are broadening the field in this legislat...
Baroness Murphy | 689 c931-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am extremely grateful for the intervention of the noble Lord, Lord Soley, because he app...
Lord Soley | 689 c928-31 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall have one more attempt, if I may, to try to persuade the House that the Government ...
Earl Howe | 689 c926-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, with this group of amendments we have arrived at perhaps the single most critical issue in...
Lord Carlile of Berriew | 689 c925-6 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 4:
4: Clause 5, page 3, line 13, leave out from ““is”” to end of line 15 and i...
Earl Howe | 689 c921-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I have found every contribution ex...
Lord Carlile of Berriew | 689 c950 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendments Nos. 6 and 7:
6: Clause 7 , page 4, line 16, leave out subsection (2)
7: Clause...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 689 c950 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I beg to move that further consideration on Report be now adjourned. In moving the Motion,...
Lord Carlile of Berriew | 689 c948 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I agree entirely with the noble Lord that these clinical teams involve many other people. ...
Lord Soley | 689 c947 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we ought to look at this again. Psychiatrists are involved in two very important areas. On...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 689 c945 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am on the Joint Committee on Human Rights which wrote the report on that matter. Is the ...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 689 c945 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful for that clarification. However, I fully agree that the team approach is the...
Lord Alderdice | 689 c945 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, perhaps I might clarify this for the Minister. None of the psychological techniques in use...
Lord Soley | 689 c945 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the reverse of that is that if the doctor said that the patient must be readmitted and the...
Lord Carlile of Berriew | 689 c947 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Baroness has absolutely no need to apologise to the House. She made her position...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 689 c947 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I certainly did not mean to imply that teamwork was not taking place at present. The whole...
Lord Carlile of Berriew | 689 c946-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am very grateful to everyone who has spoken in this short debate, which was on an extrem...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 689 c946 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I will have to write to the noble Lord on that issue; I will do so gladly and with expedie...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 689 c919-21 (Link to this contribution)
I am not arguing against that position. I shall come back to that matter shortly, if I may.
As many...
Earl Howe | 689 c919 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I had difficulty following the noble Baroness because the Bill itself contains an exclusio...
Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 689 c912 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I too support this amendment. As noble Lords know, I am a practitioner in the criminal cou...
Lord Adebowale | 689 c912-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I want to reiterate my support for the amendment and follow up on some comments I made in ...
Baroness Barker | 689 c910-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am sure that the Minister’s brief includes the apophatic tradition, and that she will no...
Lord Owen | 689 c911 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we can fairly claim that this issue is a question of principle, and a substantial one at t...
Lord Soley | 689 c914-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, my noble friend Lady Kennedy put her finger on the key issue: whether it is better to put ...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 689 c917-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this has been an important debate on a key part of the Bill—indeed, an issue of principle....
Lord Alderdice | 689 c913-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I would like to speak about diagnosis, adverted to by my noble friend Lady Barker and the ...
Countess of Mar | 689 c914 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, support the noble Earl, Lord Howe, in this amendment. This category includes anoth...
Baroness Murphy | 689 c909 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, briefly, I support the noble Earl, Lord Howe, on the amendment. I do not want to repeat wh...
Earl Howe | 689 c908 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the key test is whether there is an underlying mental disorder. That may exhibit itself in...
689 c909-10 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the House will no doubt be very familiar with the writings of a 6th century monk, a Syrian...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 689 c904-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am delighted to see the noble Lord, Lord Rix, in his place once more. We missed him. I a...
Lord Rix | 689 c906 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, what can I say after that? It is a most generous offer—one which I happily accept. I am ov...
Earl Howe | 689 c906-8 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 3:
3: Clause 3 , page 2, leave out lines 25 and 26 and insert—
““““(3) For the...
Lord Soley | 689 c908 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, will the noble Earl clarify how paragraph (c) of the amendment would work in the case of a...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 689 c937 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I simply say to the noble Lord that it is clear from the debate that there is some doubt a...
Lord Ramsbotham | 689 c933 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am glad that the noble Lord, Lord Alderdice, mentioned resources because I wonder whethe...
Lord Rix | 689 c903-4 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 2:
2: Clause 2 , page 2, leave out lines 13 and 14
The noble Lord said: My Lo...
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