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.
Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Oliver Dowden
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Friday, 3 November 2017.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Bill.
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