Mental Health Bill [HL] — requirement for incompetance of patient. — 10 Jan 2007 at 17:16

The mental health bill is largely being used to amend the 1983 Mental Health Act. This is therefore an amendment to amend that Act.

This amendments relates to detention under the Act under sections two and three - commonly known as sectioning. There are currently two conditions to being sectioned firstly you have to have mental health problem which warrants admission to hospital and secondly and secondly there should be an issue of safety to the patient or others.

This amendment adds a third condition that "(aa) because of his mental disorder, his ability to make decisions about the provision of medical treatment is significantly impaired" to both of these sections

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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.

PartyMajority (Content)Minority (Not-Content)Turnout
Bishop4 015.4%
Con115 (+1 tell) 055.2%
Crossbench41 122.2%
Green1 0100.0%
Independent Labour1 0100.0%
Lab3 115 (+2 tell)55.3%
LDem54 (+1 tell) 069.6%
UUP1 0100.0%
Total:220 11647.0%

Rebel Voters - sorted by name

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

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NamePartyVote
Lord Boston of FavershamCrossbenchno
Lord Bragg Labaye
Baroness Wilkins Lab (minister)aye
Lord Winston Labaye

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