Mental Health Bill [HL] — Doctors' involvement in Community Treatment Orders — 26 Feb 2007 at 18:22
Lord Triesman voted in the minority (Not-Content).
The mental health bill is largely being used to amend the 1983 Mental Health Act. This is therefore an amendment to a bill to amend that Act.
In some cases in the community the responsible clinician may be a community psychiatric nurse or other professional who is not a psychiatrist.
This amendment would make it mandatory for a doctor - normal either the patient's GP or a psychiatrist to be agree with the decision to place the patient under a Community Treatment Order
The Lords approved the amendment
Their Lordships divided: Contents, 173; Not-Contents, 140.
Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.Party | Majority (Content) | Minority (Not-Content) | Turnout |
Bishop | 2 | 0 | 7.7% |
Con | 87 (+1 tell) | 0 | 42.3% |
Crossbench | 22 | 3 | 13.2% |
Green | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 1 | 135 (+2 tell) | 63.9% |
LDem | 55 (+1 tell) | 0 | 70.9% |
Total: | 169 | 138 | 43.2% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by party
Lords for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible lord who could have voted in this division
Name | Party | Vote |
Lord Birt | Crossbench | no |
Baroness Howarth of Breckland | Crossbench | no |
Lord St John of Bletso | Crossbench | no |
Lord Bragg | Lab | aye |