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date	15/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Act 1983 Independent Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timescale is for his Department to respond to the recommendations of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	191977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The Independent Review of the Mental Health Act will report before the end of the year. The Government will consider its findings and respond in due course. The Review will make recommendations to Government for how it should improve the Act, including considering what changes might be needed to reduce the number of detentions under the Act, but the Review itself was not commissioned to have a direct influence on legislation or practice.</p><p> </p><p>We have therefore made no assessment on the effect of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act on the rate of detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 191976 192127 question first answered 23/11/2018 11:17:27 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

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date	21/05/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Act 1983 Independent Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the work undertaken to date by the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	146321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2018 answer text <p>The Independent Review of the Mental Health Act published an interim report on Tuesday 1 May 2018 which is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-mental-health-act-interim-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-mental-health-act-interim-report</a></p><p> </p><p>The Government commissioned this review with the objective of ensuring that the Mental Health Act works better for patients and their families, in view of rising rates of detention and the current disproportionate number of people from black and minority ethnic groups detained under the Act.</p><p> </p><p>The Government welcomes the good progress made by Sir Simon Wessely and his team so far, including the wide-ranging engagement with stakeholders and service users which has been undertaken to date. We look forward to receiving the review’s final recommendations when published in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 25/05/2018 10:31:10 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield