Jen Craft

Jen Craft

Labour — Thurrock

Speaking in the House of Commons on 14 October 2025

Debate

Mental Health Bill [Lords]

Contribution

I will not, because I am aware that I am almost out of time. My new clause would ensure that the Government have to set out, within six months of this Bill receiving Royal Assent, a road map that engages in a co-productive way with people with learning disabilities or autism, their advocates and organisations that champion their rights. The road map will design what they need to support them to lead independent dignified lives in the community, and there will be a report every year to say how we are getting community services to a sufficient place so that these much-needed clauses in the Bill can be switched on. This Bill updates mental health legislation and brings it into the 21st century. It is only right that it does so for everyone in our society, including the most vulnerable.

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