Clause 5 - Acts in connection with care or treatment
Mental Capacity Bill
2:45 pm
Mr Tim Boswell (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Daventry, Conservative)
The Minister is being extremely helpful, as I expected, on what are primarily probing amendments. However, if the Bill does not cover decisions—and the Minister just slipped back into using the word ''decisions'', which almost prompted me to intervene—will he please explain where there is any cover for someone who takes a decision? Presumably that centres on whether the person had mental capacity, and whether steps had been taken. If somebody says, ''That was a very bad decision you took for me while I was unconscious,'' how could redress be sought?