Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains her Department's policy to reform the Mental Health Act 1983.

We remain committed to bringing forward a Mental Health Bill when Parliamentary time allows us to do so. In the meantime, we are already taking forward wider commitments to improve the care and treatment of people detained under the Mental Health Act, including piloting models of Culturally Appropriate Advocacy. These pilots will provide tailored support to people from ethnic minority communities and improve their experience of being treated under the Mental Health Act.

This is alongside our wider commitment to invest at least £2.3 billion of additional funding a year by March 2024 to expand and transform mental health services within the National Health Service, so an extra two million people can get mental health support.