Mental Illness: Discrimination
(asked on 5th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were (a) charged, (b) found guilty and (c) sentenced under the Equality Act 2010 for mental health discrimination in each year since 2010.
This question was answered on 10th July 2017
Mental health discrimination is not a prosecutable offence. Discrimination cases are heard by civil courts and employment tribunals. The available data on those proceedings does not distinguish between different types of disability.