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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 24 November 2025

Debate

Mental Health Bill [HL]

Contribution

18: Schedule 2, page 81, line 25, leave out from beginning to end of line 3 on page 82 and insert— “(3) If no local authority has parental responsibility for the relevant patient but there are one or more other persons who have parental responsibility and who are willing to act as the nominated person, the approved mental health professional must appoint one of them.”

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