Community Orders: Mental Illness

(asked on 17th September 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many mental health treatment orders were issued by each magistrates' court in England and Wales in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Lord Faulks Portrait
Lord Faulks
This question was answered on 1st October 2015

Data on Mental Health Treatment Requirement Orders (MHTRs) made by each court is not held centrally.

Only national data on numbers of MHTRs issued in England and Wales as part of a community order/suspended sentence is available and can be found here:

Year

Numbers of MHTRs issued.

2015 (January to March):

202

2014

960

2013

854

2012

764

2011

878

2010

1005

The above data can be found in the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly Bulletins.

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