Clause 1 - The Principles
Mental Capacity Bill
11:00 am
Mr David Lammy (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs; Tottenham, Labour)
''Disability'' in this context must be read with regard to the central concept at the heart of the Bill, which is not disability per se, but capacity. The hon. Gentleman will see in clause 2 and throughout the Bill how we choose to define capacity; it is defined not so as to start down a road to creating a Bill that deals only with a certain group of people who lack capacity, but to deal with all contexts that can emerge.