Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of how consent to share information with family carers is applied by mental health providers and the mental health workforce.

The Mental Health Act Code of Practice is already clear that practitioners should be familiar with the provisions of the Mental Capacity Act. We will look at how we can improve guidance on capacity and assessment of capacity to professionals in the revised Mental Health Act Code of Practice.