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Earl Howe (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 31 March 2025

Debate

Mental Health Bill [HL]

Contribution

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken so powerfully in support of the amendments in this group. I also thank the Minister for her full reply. In the interests of time, I will not cover all the issues at length; however, I am grateful to the Minister for her welcome assurances on my Amendment 41. It is excellent news that the Government will be taking forward my plea to strengthen the provisions around advance choice documents when the Bill reaches the other place. On nasogastric feeding, I was glad to hear that discussions would be taken forward with the professions in the mental health sector. I hope that the Law Society’s concerns will be taken into account in those discussions. Finally, I must express some disappointment at the Minister’s reply about the idea of a debriefing process for patients after leaving hospital. We cannot be sure that the work of Dr Dash will deliver progress in this area, and I still feel that the case I tried to put is strong. I will reflect on what the Minister said, but I reserve the right to test the opinion of the House when Amendment 37 is reached. For now, I beg leave to withdraw Amendment 12.

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