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1698107

registered interest
date	22/03/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2024 to Question 16027 on Suicide, how much of the £57 million allocated for suicide (a) prevention and (b) bereavement services has been allocated to local authorities; and by what date must the funds be spent.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	20110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The £57 million of funding was made available across the period from April 2019 to March 2024. Neither the Department nor NHS England holds information centrally on how much of this funding has ultimately gone to local authorities. NHS England allocates funding to integrated care boards, who in turn commission activities across local authority and health settings.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 27/03/2024 16:29:29 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1695424

registered interest
date	12/03/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of findings from (a) the report by the Anscombe Institute entitled Suicide prevention: does legalising assisted suicide make things better or worse?, published on 21 April 2022, and (b) other suicide prevention organisations.
tabling member constituency	Devizes
tabling member printed	Danny Kruger
uin	18323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2024 answer text <p>It remains the Department’s view that any change to the law in this sensitive area is a matter for Parliament to decide, and an issue of conscience for individual parliamentarians rather than one for Government policy. The Department as no such plans to make any formal assessment.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 18324 question first answered 18/03/2024 17:42:13 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4858 label Biography information for Danny Kruger

1692208

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether suicide prevention funding for local authorities will be extended beyond April 2024.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	16027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The Suicide Prevention Strategy for England is supported by a wide range of Government funded activity, that will support people’s mental health. This includes an increase in mental health spending of £4.6 billion between 2018/19 and 2023/24, compared to the original £3.4 billion set out at the time of the NHS Long Term Plan’s publishing. Of this, £57 million has been specifically for suicide prevention and suicide bereavement services in all areas of the country. Future funding beyond the Long Term Plan is yet to be determined. From 2021 to 2025 we will have made over £15 million available to support suicide prevention in voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations through our suicide prevention grant funds.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 05/03/2024 11:58:15 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1673917

registered interest
date	29/11/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will provide additional funding to replace the funding for suicide prevention allocated under the NHS Long Term Plan which ends in March 2024.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	4357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>Funding beyond 2024/25 is subject to future spending decisions through which we will consider further opportunities to build upon our £57 million investment for suicide prevention under the NHS Long Term Plan. In addition, the Government’s £10 million Suicide Prevention Grant Fund will run to March 2025 to support voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations in meeting demand for their services supporting people experiencing suicidal thoughts or approaching a mental health crisis. We expect to start making this funding available to successful applicants as soon as possible in the New Year.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 04/12/2023 15:32:57 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1660440

registered interest
date	13/09/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Research briefing by the House of Commons Library, Suicide statistics, published on 2 December 2022, whether his Department has made a comparative assessment of the reasons for the trends in level of suicide rates (a) decreasing between 1982 to 2007 and (b) increasing since 2007.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	199409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2023 answer text <p>The Department has made no such formal assessment. The factors that lead a person to take their own life are very often complex and we continue to work with our National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group, including academics, to identify and share information and learning about existing and emerging suicide risk factors.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 22/09/2023 10:24:07 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1659806

registered interest
date	11/09/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department plans to allocate to the roll out of the national cross-government strategy on preventing suicide.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	198946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p>We recently launched our Suicide Prevention Grant Fund, which makes £10 million available over the next two years to support suicide prevention activities delivered in England by voluntary, community or social enterprise organisations.</p><p>The fund will help non-profit organisations in meeting the increased demand seen in recent years and assist a range of diverse and innovative activity that can prevent suicides, both at a national and community level. It will especially support those organisations working with groups of concern identified in the new suicide prevention strategy for England.</p><p>Wider investment includes £57 million being spent on suicide prevention and suicide bereavement services in all local areas to March 2024 via the NHS Long Term Plan and the £150 million capital investment being made available to improve mental health urgent and emergency care pathways.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 19/09/2023 13:41:20 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1656621

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to continue the local funding for suicide prevention which was previously allocated through the NHS Long Term Plan 2019.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	196405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan commits to investing £57 million in suicide prevention by March 2024 through the NHS Long Term Plan. Through this, all areas of the country are seeing investment to support local suicide prevention plans and the development of suicide bereavement services. Funding beyond 2024/25 is subject to future Spending Reviews, and we will consider further opportunities to build upon this investment for suicide prevention.</p><p>On 25 August 2023, the Government launched the Suicide Prevention Grant Fund to support suicide prevention activities delivered in England by voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE) organisations to March 2025. The fund will support non-profit organisations to meet the increased demand seen in recent years and support a range of diverse and innovative activity that can prevent suicides, both at a national and community level.</p><p>As the Chancellor announced in the Spring Budget 2023, we will provide an extra £10 million over the next two years to the VCSE sector through a Suicide Prevention VCSE Grant Fund, which will support them to sustain their services, help meet increased demand for support, prevent suicides and stem the flow into crisis services.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 07/09/2023 11:27:58 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1644099

registered interest
date	13/06/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the funding for suicide prevention and bereavement services in the NHS Long Term Plan has been spent on a) suicide prevention and b) bereavement services.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Liz Twist
uin	189311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2023 answer text <p>A total of £57 million was allocated through the NHS Long Term Plan to enable every area of the country to receive funding for suicide prevention and bereavement services by 2023/24. Approximately two thirds of this £57 million, £38 million, has been spent on suicide prevention and the remainder on suicide bereavement services.</p><p>The ‘NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20 – 2023/24’ provides a detailed breakdown of this investment and the activity that it is due to fund. This is available at the following link: https://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/nhs-mental-health-implementation-plan-2019-20-2023-24.pdf.</p><p>The NHS Mental Health Dashboard sets out year by year spending plans for local and national NHS commissioning organisations, which is available at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/mh-dashboard/</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 20/06/2023 16:15:50 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 82331 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4618 label Biography information for Liz Twist

1628441

registered interest
date	17/05/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of when the national suspected suicide surveillance system will be rolled out.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	185612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>The national suspected suicide surveillance system developed by Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) in collaboration with local areas and the National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) is currently operating in a testing phase. The intention is to complete this phase and move to routinely published reporting by the end of the calendar year.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 12/06/2023 16:25:26 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 76144 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1604180

registered interest
date	14/03/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the development of the national suicide prevention strategy.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	165359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2023 answer text <p>There have been no specific discussions. The Department is working across Government, with the health system and with suicide prevention stakeholders, to ensure the new suicide prevention strategy reflects the most up to date evidence and addresses the current challenges, risks, and opportunities to prevent suicide.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 22/03/2023 09:15:14 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy