Parliamentary search - Mental Health Bill [HL]

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2006-07

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Mental Health Bill (HL) . Explanatory Notes also published (HL Bill 1-EN )
Thursday, 16 November 2006
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Proceeding contributions

Countess of Mar | 688 c544-5 (Link to this contribution) The argument can be taken yet a step further. The Minister might be amused to know that I am going b...

Lord Carlile of Berriew | 688 c544 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness, Lady Royall, expressed the generous wish that she had been on the committee. I, ...

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Lord Williamson of Horton | 688 c543 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendment proposed by the noble Earl, Lord Howe. As he stated, 16 and 17 year-olds dee...

Baroness Walmsley | 688 c543-4 (Link to this contribution) My response to the issue of consent is that it is nonsense that a young person who is deemed compete...

Baroness Barker | 688 c541-2 (Link to this contribution) As I expected, the noble Baroness went some way to address my fears, but she did not do so entirely....

Earl Howe | 688 c542-3 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 26: 26: After Clause 20 , insert the following new Clause— ““CHAPTER 2A Childr...

Baroness Barker | 688 c539-40 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 25: 25: Clause 17 , page 11, line 33, at end insert ““; and (e) the making of ...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 688 c540-1 (Link to this contribution) Listening to the intervention of the noble Baroness, I wished I had been a member of that Joint Comm...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 688 c538-9 (Link to this contribution) Amendment No. 24, in conjunction with Amendment No. 23, would remove subsections (3) to (7) of Secti...

Earl Howe | 688 c539 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for that helpful reply. I accept her offer with alacrity. I...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 688 c558-9 (Link to this contribution) Well, I hope that this will not be an anodyne response. I listened to noble Lords as they graphicall...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 688 c545-6 (Link to this contribution) It has been an interesting debate. I hope that I can allay the fears expressed by noble Lords. On th...

Baroness Howells of St Davids | 688 c552-4 (Link to this contribution) My amendment has been linked to Amendment No. 27. It is intended to ensure that children and young p...

Baroness Walmsley | 688 c554-7 (Link to this contribution) On behalf of Members on these Benches, I support both the amendments, which would ensure that a chil...

Baroness Masham of Ilton | 688 c557 (Link to this contribution) I have a very brief speech. Throughout the National Health Service there have for many years been pr...

Lord Carlile of Berriew | 688 c557-8 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for speaking and thereby lengthening the debate at this stage of the evening, but in my ...

Earl Howe | 688 c546 (Link to this contribution) It has been a helpful debate. I welcome the Minister’s constructive response, and I am glad that he ...

Earl Howe | 688 c546-8 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 27: 27: After Clause 20 , insert the following new Clause— ““Children and youn...

Lord Williamson of Horton | 688 c548-9 (Link to this contribution) These are important amendments in relation to children and young people and they are what I would de...

Lord Patel of Bradford | 688 c549-52 (Link to this contribution) It is a regrettable fact of the psychiatric provision in this country that mental health services th...

Lord Carlile of Berriew | 688 c559 (Link to this contribution) I do not begin to understand the point the Minister is making. If what he is saying is right, why ha...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 688 c559-60 (Link to this contribution) That is not what I am saying at all. Essentially, the Mental Health Act is concerned, as it ought to...

Earl Howe | 688 c561-2 (Link to this contribution) The length of this debate has reflected the undoubted strength of feeling that exists on what is an ...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 688 c562 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move that the House do now resume. Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to.

Baroness Murphy | 688 c519-20 (Link to this contribution) The noble Earl and the noble Baroness outlined very clearly why this amendment should be in the Bill...

Earl Howe | 688 c517-9 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 20: 20: After Clause 7 , insert the following new Clause— ““High doses After s...

Baroness Barker | 688 c527-8 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may just respond to the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay. In drafting the amendment people were...

Earl Howe | 688 c528 (Link to this contribution) I hope this is a matter that all of us on the Committee can sign up to, at least in principle, witho...

Lord Carlile of Berriew | 688 c526 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendment. It has been moved with great cogency by the noble Baroness, Lady Murphy, wh...

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 688 c526-7 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to draw attention to any of the wording of the amendment in the light of the two previous...

Earl Howe | 688 c521 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his full reply. While I had not expected him to accept the amendme...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 688 c520-1 (Link to this contribution) This has been an interesting short debate. I do not disagree with the noble Lords and the noble Earl...

Baroness Murphy | 688 c523-6 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 21: 21: Clause 12 , page 9, line 5, at end insert— ““( ) Before section 76 ins...

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 688 c522-3 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Minister for her response. I am slightly relieved to hear that the Explana...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 688 c522 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness clearly and rightly wishes in the amendment to rectify an apparent anomaly in the...

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 688 c521-2 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 20A: 20A: Clause 8 , page 5, line 2, at end insert— ““( ) In section 8 of the ...

Earl Howe | 688 c538 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 23: 23: Clause 15 , page 10, line 34, after ““recommendations),”” insert ““is ...

Baroness Neuberger | 688 c538 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendment. For many of us, the key point is that one of the people concerned has to be...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 688 c528-9 (Link to this contribution) This has been an interesting debate. I know that the House discussed these issues at length when we ...

Lord Patel of Bradford | 688 c530-3 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 22: 22: Clause 13 , page 9, line 32, at end insert— ““( ) In section 45 (gener...

Baroness Murphy | 688 c529-30 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that careful reply. I must confess to being puzzled why it is possible in s...

Baroness Barker | 688 c534 (Link to this contribution) I added my name to this amendment for a particular reason. The Joint Scrutiny Committee was regularl...

Earl Howe | 688 c533-4 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Patel of Bradford, has very ably articulated the case for the principle of reci...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 688 c535-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to your Lordships for raising this important subject. As noble Lords have said, it is ...

Lord Warner | 688 c535 (Link to this contribution) I have a good deal of sympathy with the sentiments behind this group of amendments. Certainly no one...

Lord Patel of Bradford | 688 c537-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Earl, Lord Howe, and the noble Baroness, Lady Barker, for their contribution to th...

Baroness Neuberger | 688 c519 (Link to this contribution) I speak to this amendment from personal experience of chairing an NHS trust with a large mental heal...

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Mental Health Bill (HL) 2006-07

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