Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Bill (Money)

Steve Reed Excerpts

Tuesday 24th April 2018 Commons Chamber

[Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North) (Lab/Co-op)]

I congratulate the Government and the Minister on bringing forward the money resolution this evening. We have been anticipating it for a few weeks, so it is a great pleasure and slight relief to have it before the Chamber.

The resolution will allow the Committee to complete its work in the morning and take forward this important social reform, which we hope will make a big difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in our country—people who are living with mental ill health and should not face extreme forms, or indeed other forms, of restraint, which can cause serious injury or even death, as we saw in the case of Seni Lewis. I thank the Minister for her commitment to seeing this through.

Question put and agreed to.