Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Government plans to publish its response to the final report of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983, published on 6 December 2018; and what the Government's timescale is for introducing a mental health Bill to reform that Act.

We plan to publish our White Paper in the next few months, which will set out the Government’s response to Sir Simon Wessely’s Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983.

We will consult publicly on our proposals and we will bring forward a Bill to amend the Act when parliamentary time allows.