Question follow-through · 52928
Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help protect patients who have been sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2025
- Answer
- 22 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help protect patients who have been sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983.
21 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 May 2025
Answer published
The Mental Health Bill, which has now passed from the House of Lords to the House of Commons, will give patients greater choice, autonomy, enhanced rights, and support, and will ensure that everyone is treated with dignity and respect throughout treatment...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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