Clause 9 - Lasting powers of attorney
Mental Capacity Bill
10:30 am
Mr Tim Boswell (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Daventry, Conservative)
For the purposes of the discussion, may I float the idea that there ought to be, through the Office of the Public Guardian, some kind of system whereby people could ring a hotline and ask the public guardian to investigate something of which they were vaguely aware and in which, perhaps, they did not have a close interest? As with benefit fraud, under such a system somebody official could look into the matter, on their own initiative as it were, to establish whether further action was required.