Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 112132
Mental Capacity: Medical Examinations
Tabled: 10 February 2026
Answered: 16 February 2026
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental capacity assessments have been carried out on patients in each of the last five years.
Answer
Stephen KinnockThe Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) is designed to protect and empower people who lack the mental capacity to make a decision themselves. It says that every person must be presumed to have capacity to make the decision in question unless it is established ...
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