National Preventive Mechanism Ninth Annual Report 2017–18 • • • • 26 Centre; and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence consultation on preventing suicide in community and custodial settings. In addition, HMI Prisons provided oral and written evidence to the House of Commons’ Justice Select Committee’s inquiry into Transforming Rehabilitation and written evidence to its Prisons Population 2022: planning for the future inquiry. HMIPS gave oral and written evidence on prisoner voting to the Equality and Human Rights Committee, and evidence on the use of remand to the Justice Committee of the Scottish Parliament. ICVA participated in the review of the MHA, providing information on key challenges and concerns in police custody, contributed to the Home Office guidance on commissioning of Appropriate Adult services for vulnerable adults in police custody, and participated in a consultation on PACE Code C, which formalised the rights of those attending voluntary interviews. In addition, ICVA presented its findings to the Ministerial Board of Deaths in Custody and the Home Office PACE Strategy Board on a regular basis throughout the year. IMBNI provided a response to the Northern Ireland Prison Service’s discussion document, Prisons 2020. MWCS made submissions to the Scottish Parliament’s Health and Sport Committee in relation to the inquiry into health care in prisons, and following a call for views on the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015. MWCS also submitted evidence to an independent review of legal aid in Scotland, to an engagement paper on the draft suicide prevention plan, and to proposals for reform of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000. • SHRC made a number of submissions throughout the year, including to proposals for reform of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, the Scottish Parliament’s Inquiry into Human Rights, and in relation to a petition calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to conduct a wide review of mental health and incapacity legislation in Scotland and the Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill. Collaboration and international scrutiny Collaboration The NPM and its members collaborated actively with a range of actors throughout the year, including NGOs expert in torture prevention, inspectorates and monitoring bodies from other countries, and academics. The NPM continued to meet regularly with other European NPMs, including through attending meetings organised by the Council of Europe. In addition, in December 2017, the NPM Chair spoke at a meeting of the South East European NPM network hosted by the Serbian NPM, at which he talked about the UK NPM’s inspection, monitoring and visiting methodology and provided examples from the work of HMIPS, HMI Prisons, ICVA and CQC. The NPM also took part in a meeting of European NPMs hosted by the Association for Prevention of Torture (APT) which discussed the idea of forming an NPM-led network of NPMs. The NPM Secretariat continued to attend meetings of the Treaty Monitoring Working Group hosted by the Equality and Human Rights Commission and met with the Commission on a regular basis to discuss