PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Children (22 July 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children were detained in police cells under the Mental Health Act 1983 (a) since 1 January 2020 and (b) in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

Answer

This information is already publicly available.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2019


Answered by:
Kit Malthouse (Conservative)
7 September 2020

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