Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [Lords]

I am here today to prove my mettle.

I will start by stating the obvious: our liberty is our...

I understand the Minister’s concern not to impinge on the rights of disabled and elderly people, ...

Of course, any organisation representing these vulnerable people that raises concerns deserves to...

May I pursue the intervention from the right hon. Member for North Norfolk (Norman Lamb)? Is the ...

I do not think it is ever possible to say that. This particular area of law has always been open ...

The Minister has just mentioned case studies, and she has mentioned them before. She has circulat...

I think that there must be some confusion. The case studies will be part of the code of practice....

What provision does the Minister think should be made in the code for the families? Often the adu...

The role of the family is much greater in this amended legislation than it is currently. A number...

I received some correspondence from Age Concern, as the Minister knows. It wanted to raise two sp...

Yes, that definition is included in the Bill, and it is also expected that people will have an ad...

So the wishes and feelings of the loved ones and their families are at the heart of the Bill?

The wishes and feelings of the vulnerable person are at the centre of the Bill, and the wishes an...

Does the Minister agree that one of the most essential things everyone should do while they are w...

As a Justice Minister, I was responsible for lasting powers of attorney and we spent a lot of tim...

I am going to make little progress now because I have a lot more to say and I know that other Mem...

What assurances can the Minister give that the regulations will be genuinely co-created with prac...

The Bill is very clear about the skills and qualifications necessary for those carrying out the a...

I would like to thank the Minister for meeting me earlier to discuss the Bill. She was very gener...

Yes, we envisage that there will be training and we will be working with partners such as Skills ...

Could the Minister outline the role of care staff in preparing the documentation and making ready...

I am actually coming to that very section of the Bill now.

We are proposing that a review o...

Many hon. Members will have had a large amount of correspondence from constituents on this matter...

I accept that there were a number of concerns, but we made changes to say that care home managers...

I am afraid that I will not take any more interventions because Mr Deputy Speaker might fall out ...

Will the Minister give way?

I am afraid that I cannot take any more interventions at this stage.

Our Bill allows the pe...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way and for listening to many of the concerns that have been ex...

The backlog of 125,000 people without the safeguards they need, with their families lacking reass...

The opening two speeches have taken 55 minutes, and we have to finish at 6 pm. I recognise that a...

We should not be in this position of having less than two hours on Report. This Bill has been rus...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Bill should be paused until the draft code of practice is read...

I very much agree with that. We have heard about a code of practice and regulations, but we canno...

While my hon. Friend is on the subject of care home managers, may I ask whether she agrees that i...

I absolutely agree with that. Local councils face a serious resource issue, and we see a pressing...

The hon. Lady is making a powerful case and she talked about many such cases in Committee. Does s...

I could not disagree with the Minister more, because what she is doing is putting people into the...

Under the new system, family members and parents will be listened to, because they will be the ap...

It is not helpful if the Minister and I argue about this. We have had this argument enough times ...

I can understand where the hon. Lady’s concerns come from, but having had detailed discussions wi...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that question. We have had no reassurances whatever. In fact, sinc...

Is my hon. Friend satisfied that rights of appeal are being managed correctly in the Bill?

No. On the Opposition Benches, we are not satisfied with very much about the Bill, but I am talki...

My hon. Friend is so generous in taking interventions. Does she agree that there is no consistenc...

That may well be the case, but the difficulty here is that we have a complex system when we shoul...

I rise to support the Bill and, in particular, to speak in favour of Government amendments 24 and...

Does the hon. Lady recognise that the Law Commission objects to the fact that its recommendations...

I was about to say that the Joint Committee welcomed the Law Commission’s recommendations because...

I want to speak primarily in support of the amendments in the name of the shadow Minister, the ho...

On the training that the Minister has talked about and the hon. Member for Congleton (Fiona Bruce...

That is clearly insufficient when it comes to the vital task of playing a role in the protection ...

Given the restrictions on time, I will curtail my speech and take out remarks I might have made; ...

It will be obvious that three people have indicated they wish to take part. I am sure that they w...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Torbay (Kevin Foster).

It is my firm belief ...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on a fantastic, very heartfelt and experienced speech. Does he shar...

I thank my hon. Friend and I fully agree with him. The cuts to local government have been devasta...

The hon. Gentleman keeps talking about human rights, but what answer does he have for the fact th...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention, but in terms of human rights, this issue is being rai...

I will be brief. My hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) has tabled an excellent ame...

I had hoped to address several of the amendments signed by my hon. Friends and me, because this i...

I was expecting my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) to go on a bit lon...

With the leave of the House, I propose to put Government amendments 5 to 37 together.

Consideration completed. Colleagues, I will now suspend the House for no more than five minutes i...

I can now inform the House that I have completed certification of the Bill, as required by the St...

indicated assent.

The House forthwith resolved itself into the Legislative Grand Committee ...

As the knife has fallen, there can be no debate in the Legislative Grand Committee. I remind hon....

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

Our liberty is the most fundamenta...

I thank my hon. Friend for the conciliatory way in which she has gone about dealing with this Bil...

My hon. Friend raises a very important point. I am grateful to him for all his feedback on this B...

It is appalling that we should have had less than two hours for Report stage of a Bill affecting ...

Does the shadow Minister share my confusion and concern that the Mental Health Act review, which ...

That is very much the case. We asked on Second Reading for some consideration of the interface be...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I do not have time, I am afraid.

The Government have consistently tried to push the Bill th...