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Written Question
Veterans: Suicide
Wednesday 24th April 2024

Asked by: Liz Twist (Labour - Blaydon and Consett)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether official statistics on suicides in armed forces veterans will be published annually.

Answered by Johnny Mercer

The Office for Veterans’ Affairs, Office for National Statistics and the Ministry of Defence have collaboratively developed a new approach for calculating veteran suicides in England and Wales.

This year, the ONS published suicide statistics for 2021 using this new approach and it intends to continue publishing veteran suicide stats on a yearly basis.



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