Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with Cloudflare on removing the website linked to deaths by suicide reported on by the BBC on 24 October 2023.

Ministerial meetings are routinely published on gov.uk. We recognise the role of internet service providers in protecting people online. We are working with a range of organisations across the suicide prevention sector, and more widely, on this issue in order to enable better protection for individuals.

On 11 September, we published a new national suicide prevention strategy for England, with more than 100 actions to support our aim to reduce the suicide rate within two and a half years. This includes action across government and other organisations to tackle pro-suicide forums.