PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients (6 June 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 May 2018 to Question 146959, how many people have been detained under (a) the Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991, (b) section 47 of the National Assistance Act 1948, (c) sections 1, 2 or 12 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969, (d) the Children Act 1989 and (e) section 3 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 in each of the last five years for which data is available.

Asked by:
Rosie Duffield (Independent)

The information is not available in the format requested.

Before 2016-17, the official statistics on detentions under the Mental Health Act were collected in aggregate form and cannot be broken down any further to identify specific legislation. Since 2016-17 the data collection has changed, to the Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS), and information on the number of known detentions for people formally detained under Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964 as amended by the Criminal Procedures (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991 is available for 2016-17 and is shown in the following table.

Information is not available on the number of people detained under the other individual pieces of legislation requested, although a total of detentions made under these Acts is also shown in the table.

Number of detentions which were not under the Mental Health Act (1983) in 2016/17, England

Formally Detained Under	Number of Detentions
Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964 as amended by the Criminal Procedures (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991	2
Other Acts	15
Formal detentions not under the Mental Health Act (1983)	17

Source: MHSDS, NHS Digital

Notes:

The table shows the number of detentions made under Acts other than the Mental Health Act. The total has been published in the ‘Mental Health Act Statistics, Annual Figures: 2016-17’ publication but is further broken down here to show the number of detentions made under the Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964 as amended by the Criminal Procedures (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991.

This is a count of detentions rather than a count of people and one person may be detained more than once in any given period.

Answered by:
Dame Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative)
15 June 2018