Clause 5
Mental Health Bill [Lords]
3:00 pm
Tim Loughton (Shadow Minister (Children), Health; East Worthing and Shoreham, Conservative)
We have heard this story before. On Monday we interviewed Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, who is a member of the Law Society’s mental health and disability committee, and we have spoken to other lawyers and experts on the matter. She said categorically that she does not believe that it is a problem and that she could count on the fingers of one hand the number of inmates of Broadmoor who, in20 years, have been deemed untreatable. Of those, only one was let out, and that was against the doctor’s recommendation. The same line came from Alan Franey, the chief executive of Broadmoor for many years, who also supports our position. If the Minister has evidence, she needs to produce it rather than come up with wild accusations that seem to have no basis in fact or reality.