§ Mr. Ron Lewisasked the Minister of Health, in view of the available statistics on the increase of drug addiction, if he will seek powers to prevent addicts from discharging themselves from hospital when they are not fit to he discharged, and consider seeking to amend the law of vagrancy so as to justify their detention in hospital, to prevent them from destroying themselves and others.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonNo. I accept the Brain Committee's view that compulsory treatment meets with little success.