Clause 10
Mental Health Bill [Lords]
6:00 pm
David Kidney (PPS (Rt Hon David Miliband, Secretary of State), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Stafford, Labour)
As the hon. Gentleman says, the list in clause 10 at least includes new paragraph (2B)(d), which states “avoidance of unlawful discrimination”. That gives the tie-in to the draft code, which we have before us. He has not mentioned it, but does he agree that it contains a good non-discrimination principle. It states that
“patients should not be discriminated against, either directly or indirectly, on the grounds of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, language, religion or national, ethnic or social origin.”
Does he agree that that goes quite a long way along the road that he mentions—the only things that are missing are disability and politics?