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Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Bill

My hon. Friend makes an important point and that is something that we are waking up to. As Home Secretary, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made great strides to seek to change the approach taken by the police so that people are not automatically put in a cell. If somebody is already suffering from a mental health condition, the worst possible thing for them is a night in the cells, the conditions of which we have all seen as constituency MPs.

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Reference

630 c1099 

Session

2017-19

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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