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Mental Health Services: Gender Based Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the Mental Health Act 2025 and accompanying statutory guidance adequately address disparities in access, quality of care, and outcomes in commissi
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 15 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
15 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the Mental Health Act 2025 and accompanying statutory guidance adequately address disparities in access, quality of care, and outcomes in commissi
20 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2026
Answer published
We recognise that there are significant and concerning racial disparities in the rates of detention under the previous Mental Health Act and driving reductions in inequalities is a guiding principle for the Mental Health Act 2025. The Government will be w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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