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Mental Health Act 1983

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to reform the Mental Health Act 1983 to ensure that people have an automatic right to (a) assessment and (b) treatment.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 21 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 23 Oct 2024
Answer: 28 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

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Recorded timeline

21 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to reform the Mental Health Act 1983 to ensure that people have an automatic right to (a) assessment and (b) treatment.
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Mental Health Bill will deliver the Government’s commitment to modernise the Mental Health Act 1983. It will give patients enhanced rights and support, whilst maintaining the right balance to ensure that people get the treatment they need when necessa...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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