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Lord Bradley (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 27 January 2025

Debate

Mental Health Bill [HL]

Contribution

My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s response and pleased that progress is being well made to develop alternative facilities to ensure that the use of prisons and police stations as places of safety is banned as soon as possible. The purpose of my amendments was to keep momentum behind that programme. I hope we can properly implement these provisions in a timely way, because that would be to the greatest benefit of people affected by mental ill-health or learning disabilities who find themselves up against or in the criminal justice system. On that basis, I beg leave to withdraw my amendment.

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