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UIN 76799

Mental Illness: Prosecutions

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11 September 2025

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23 September 2025 · Answer

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of police decision-making in cases involving individuals with serious mental health conditions on the number of prosecutions for assaults aga

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  1. 11 September 2025

    Written question

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of police decision-making in cases involving individuals with serious mental health conditions on the number of prosecutions for assaults aga

    Source: Commons

  2. 23 September 2025

    Answer

    The Home Office has not made such an assessment. The police have a duty to pursue all reasonable lines of enquiry, as set out in The Code of Practice to The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996.However, the police are operationally independent f...

    Source: Written answer

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