Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-01-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) First Tier Tribunal (mental health) hearings in England and (b) Mental Health Review Tribunal hearings in Wales there have been in each year since 2010.
Caroline Dinenage
The First-tier Tribunal (Mental Health), administered by HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS), hears applications for the discharge of patients detained in psychiatric hospitals, and applications to change community treatment orders in England.
The following table shows the number of First-tier Tribunal (Mental Health) hearings which took place in England in each year from 2010 to March 2015 (the latest full year period for which statistics are available).
Year Number of hearings [1]
April 2010 – March 2011 17,799
April 2011 – March 2012 19,330
April 2012 – March 2013 19,945
April 2013 – March 2014 22,008
April 2014 – March 2015 22,246
HMCTS does not hold information on the number of Mental Health Review Tribunal hearings in Wales. The Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales is an independent judicial body administered by the Welsh Government.
1 Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system, and are the best data that are available.
