Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of whether there is a causal link between the number of inpatient beds decreasing and increases in the number of detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983 in the last 10 years.

The Care Quality Commission has recently undertaken a study examining the causes of changing rates of detention, under the Mental Health Act (1983) and are due to publish their findings by the end of the year. The Government has also commissioned an independent review of the Mental Health Act, chaired by Professor Sir Simon Wessely, which will report by autumn 2018.