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Mental Health: Escape from Secure Units

Volume 686: debated on Wednesday 1 November 2006

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Lord Hanningfield

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many individuals in each of the past10 years have absconded from a secure unit while detained or sectioned under the Mental HealthAct 1983.[HL7789]

The Minister of State, Department of Health
(Lord Warner)

The Department of Health does not routinely collect information about individuals who abscond from secure psychiatric units while detained/sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983.