Written Question·Home Office·UIN 76799

Mental Illness: Prosecutions

Tabled: 11 September 2025

Answered: 23 September 2025

Question

Bradley Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of police decision-making in cases involving individuals with serious mental health conditions on the number of prosecutions for assaults aga

Answer

Sarah Jones

The Home Office has not made such an assessment. The police have a duty to pursue all reasonable lines of enquiry, as set out in The Code of Practice to The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996.However, the police are operationally independent f...

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