Catalogue description Department of Health: Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders: Registered Files

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Reference: JA 663
Title: Department of Health: Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders: Registered Files
Description:

This series contains files relating to a review of the Mental Health Act 1959, including the Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders (Butler Committee), Home Office Criminal Law Revision Committee review of sex offenders, Forensic Psychiatry Research Liaison Group, voting rights of people with 'mental disorders', research into prisoners with 'mental disorders', proposals for Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) and Home Office collaboration and Prison Health Research Ethics Committee papers.
Date: 1979-2010
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Related files in File Office D MH154
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: MHF, MHP, MHR, ILP, DGK, PYO, QSD, MHC, MDO, MIE, MIP, MIQ, MLE, MNL, MQA, MQB, MRW, OTI, OTM, SCMP, CII, DDM, HBM, HCR, HRE, MDO, and MHU file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Health, 1988-

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
Physical description: 575 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2020 Department of Health and Social Care
Accumulation dates: MHF – Noted as in use by branch File Office 154 in 1994 according to CFR prefix closed Sept 2003
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Department of Health: Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders: Registered Files. This series contains files relating to a review of the Mental Health Act 1959, including the Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders (Butler Committee), Home Office Criminal Law Revision Committee review of sex offenders, Forensic Psychiatry Research Liaison Group, voting rights of people with 'mental disorders', research into prisoners with 'mental disorders' and proposals for Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) and Home Office collaboration.

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