Written Question
Tuesday 28th July 2015
Asked by:
Lord Hardie (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question
to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Faulks on 10 March (HL Deb, col 646) about the recruitment of a chair of the national mental capacity forum, (1) when the recruitment process was first advertised in national publications by inviting applications for the post; (2) what was the specification of the duties of the chair; (3) whether they will provide a copy of the advertisement; and (4) what stage has been reached in the appointment process.
Answered by Lord Faulks
The advert for the post of chair was advertised on the Cabinet Office’s Centre for Public Appointments website on the 24th of March 2015, and is attached. The advert contains the duties of the chair.
We are at the final stages of the recruitment process and will announce the successful candidate after summer recess as we need to allow a 5 week period for the appropriate vetting process to be completed.
Discussions on the membership and composition of the forum will take place with the new chair immediately after the completion of an appointment. We expect the process of determining membership to be complete by the end of September and will hope to convene the first meeting of the forum in November.
Written Question
Tuesday 28th July 2015
Asked by:
Lord Hardie (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question
to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Faulks on 10 March (HL Deb, col 646) about the creation of the national mental capacity forum, (1) whether an appointment has been made to the chair of that forum, and if not, when they expect to make such an appointment; (2) how soon after the appointment of the chair they expect the membership and composition of the forum to be discussed; (3) when they expect the process of determining membership to be completed; and (4) on what date they expect the forum to first meet.
Answered by Lord Faulks
The advert for the post of chair was advertised on the Cabinet Office’s Centre for Public Appointments website on the 24th of March 2015, and is attached. The advert contains the duties of the chair.
We are at the final stages of the recruitment process and will announce the successful candidate after summer recess as we need to allow a 5 week period for the appropriate vetting process to be completed.
Discussions on the membership and composition of the forum will take place with the new chair immediately after the completion of an appointment. We expect the process of determining membership to be complete by the end of September and will hope to convene the first meeting of the forum in November.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 10 Mar 2015
Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Select Committee Report)
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To move that this House takes note of the Report of the Select Committee on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Session 2013-14, HL Paper 139)...."Lord Hardie - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 10 Mar 2015
Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Select Committee Report)
"My Lords, I refer to my entry in the register of interests as honorary president of Capability Scotland.
In inviting the House to take note of the report of the Select Committee on the Mental Capacity Act 2005, I thank the members of the committee for their hard work and …..."Lord Hardie - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 10 Mar 2015
Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Select Committee Report)
"My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords and to the Minister for contributing to this stimulating and wide-ranging debate. Noble Lords have raised different aspects of the report and drawn attention to it, thereby giving it much wider coverage than I was able to do. I am grateful …..."Lord Hardie - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 22 Oct 2014
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill
"My Lords, I apologise for speaking at this late hour and detaining your Lordships but Amendment 138 is important for the application of the safeguards in the Mental Capacity Act against depriving people of their liberty without justification and for the need to provide proper judicial supervision of such actions. …..."Lord Hardie - View Speech
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 22 Jul 2013
Judicial Appointments Commission Regulations 2013
"My Lords, in relation to the Judicial Appointments Commission Regulations 2013, I seek some guidance and some information from the Minister. In terms of the composition of the commission, to which the Minister referred in his remarks, Regulation 4(5) includes as a legally qualified member of the commission a,
“fellow …..."Lord Hardie - View Speech
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 22 Jul 2013
Judicial Appointments Commission Regulations 2013
"To clarify, is the noble Lord saying that the legally qualified person who is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives would only be part of a commission which appointed members to a tribunal?..."Lord Hardie - View Speech
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 22 Jul 2013
Judicial Appointments Commission Regulations 2013
"I should just express my concern about the reference to CILEx. I fully appreciate that CILEx members should be members of a commission appointing a tribunal where they have experience, but the whole point of having legally qualified members of the commission is to have people who have experience of …..."Lord Hardie - View Speech
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 22 Jul 2013
Judicial Appointments Commission Regulations 2013
"I should say that I am not from this jurisdiction. I have no experience of this jurisdiction and I was not advocating an appointments process on the basis of appointing “chaps like us”. I was trying to confine myself to the regulations. The regulations themselves set out the basis on …..."Lord Hardie - View Speech
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