Compulsorily Detained Mental Patients: Next of Kin

Department of Health written question – answered at on 10 July 2017.

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Photo of Jeff Smith Jeff Smith Opposition Whip (Commons)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many times a nearest relative formally objected to the detention or transferral into detention of a person under the Mental Health Act 1983 in the most recent year for which data is available.

Photo of Jeff Smith Jeff Smith Opposition Whip (Commons)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many applications to displace an unsuitable nearest relative under section 29 of the Mental Health Act 1983 have been made in England in the most recent year for which data is available.

Photo of Steve Brine Steve Brine The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health

The information requested is not collected.

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