| Heading: |
Mental Health Services: Standards |
| Question ID: |
1744158 |
| UIN: |
15865 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-11-25 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4828 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Paula Barker
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Paula Barker
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that mental health patients who could pose a risk to the wider public have their cases managed appropriately. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
2024-12-02 |
| Date answered: |
2024-12-03 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The Mental Health Act 1983, now and when reformed, has the necessary powers to enable clinicians to manage high risk mental health patients. The planned reforms will not change the fundamental powers and purpose of the Act, which is to detain and treat pe... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |