Luciana Berger MP, Labour’s Shadow Public Health Minister, responding to the House of Lords Committee report on the care of vulnerable adults and the Mental Capacity Act, said:
“This betrayal leaves the most vulnerable people in society at even greater risk. It’s making their lives harder, not easier.
“Individuals won empowering rights and recognition with this legislation – it’s distressing and wrong that safeguards are not being observed.
“Labour takes the Lords’ report seriously, and calls on ministers to respond with all urgency. Ministers, who have cut the number of officials at the Ministry of Justice, and cut mental health services, must answer the charge that they are now dragging their feet over improvements to the Mental Capacity Act.”