National Marriage and Mental Health Awareness Weeks — [Sir David Amess in the Chair]

Part of Backbench Business – in Westminster Hall at 2:48 pm on 16 May 2019.

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Photo of Barbara Keeley Barbara Keeley Shadow Minister (Mental Health and Social Care) 2:48, 16 May 2019

I wanted to refer to what Patrick Grady said about detoxifying issues, which is important. The worst thing that I have read about “The Jeremy Kyle Show” is not that it focused on dysfunctional families, but that it set people against each other in an aggressive way, so it needed bouncers and security staff on hand to part people. The programme seems to have used a toxic formula, which is something that the House could look at through an inquiry, because that could persist in other types of filming. Clearly, it has had a tragic outcome, which, given the Minister’s brief, we have to take seriously.