Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of training for the police on how to support people in custody who are experiencing mental health problems.

The College of Policing has recently published Authorised Professional Practice on mental health. This guidance will support all police officers, including custody staff, to respond and support people experiencing mental health problems. It is the responsibility of individual police forces, through Chief Constables, to ensure officers and police staff receive appropriate training and that they have regard to the Authorised Professional Practice when discharging their responsibilities.