Clause 3
Mental Health Bill [Lords]
5:00 pm
Charles Walker (Broxbourne, Conservative)
It is a pleasure to serve in a Committee that is chaired by your good self, Lady Winterton.
I think that the Lords inserted the exclusion on cultural, political or religious beliefs, not to help guard against overbearing clinicians, but perhaps to protect against overbearing Governments that might lean on clinicians. Before the Minister dismisses my concerns, let me say that I do not think that anybody in the room thought three years ago that the prevention of terrorism legislation would be used haul off from the Cenotaph a woman reading the names of soldiers fallen in Iraq.