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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 20 January 2025

Debate

Mental Health Bill [HL]

Contribution

I know that some noble Lords might say that there has already been a review of CTOs, namely the Wessely review, which examined at length the impact of CTOs. It made recommendations which have found their way into this Bill, but it did not recommend that they be scrapped. The review also said that there had been three randomised controlled trials that looked at CTOs, but it believed that they provided limited evidence of their success. The Wessely report also noted that the “generalisability” of the randomised trials was limited, because

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