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Letter from Justice Secretary to IAPDC – White Paper: Reforming the Mental Health Act

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Letter from Robert Buckland QC MP, Lord Chancellor & Secretary of State for Justice to inform Juliet Lyon CBE, Chair of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody that, the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) have published on GOV.UK the Government’s White Paper on Reforming the Mental Health Act.