Mental Health Services

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 25 February 2014.

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Photo of David Heath David Heath Liberal Democrat, Somerton and Frome 11:30, 25 February 2014

Not only do mental health services not get the attention that they sometimes deserve, but the condition of individuals is often exacerbated by the inability of the benefits system to recognise episodic illness and by the insensitivity and incompetence of Atos in work capability assessments. Will the Minister talk to his colleagues in the Department for Work and Pensions so that we can have a system that is suitable and fit for people with mental illness?