Asked by: Liz Twist (Labour - Blaydon)
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 - Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Minister for Veterans' Affairs)
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.