Clause 10 - Follow-up assessment
Drugs Bill
10:30 am
Ms Caroline Flint (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (reducing organised and international crime, anti drugs co-ordination and international and European issues), Home Office; Don Valley, Labour)
The assessments are part of developing the care plan, and making the assessments mandatory is about addressing and trying to engage individuals.
There is a debate to be had about making care plans that include clinical interventions as a compulsory element, and I am sure that we will have it when we address new clause 2. The issue of compulsory treatment should also be discussed when we debate new clause 2.