Written Question·Home Office·UIN 14520

Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients

Tabled: 15 November 2024

Answered: 25 November 2024

Question

Ian Sollom

Liberal Democrat — St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were detained in health-based places of safety under the Mental Health Act 1983 in each year between 2017 and 2023; and what section of that Act they were held under.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson

The Home Office annually collects and publishes data on detentions under section 136 and section 135 of the Mental Health Act 1983 as part of the Police Powers and Procedures publication series.The most recent data can be found in the Detentions under the...

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