United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 89849
Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Ethnic Groups
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14 September 2020
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23 September 2020 · Answer
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23 September 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Black people are in psychiatric custody; how long they have been in psychiatric custody; and what assessment he has made of the reasons for the use of that custody.
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14 September 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Black people are in psychiatric custody; how long they have been in psychiatric custody; and what assessment he has made of the reasons for the use of that custody.
Source: Commons
23 September 2020
Answer
In 2018/19 there were 5,137 people detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 whose ethnicity was recorded as Black or Black British. Analysis of length of stay and length of detention has not yet been undertaken. This analysis is complex and as such would...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-09-14/89849
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1234019
- uk · wq-1234019 · source updated 23 September 2020