Samaritans: Telephone Services

(asked on 16th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to meet the Government's commitment to provide funding for the Samaritans' helpline until the end of the current Parliament.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 24th October 2017

As set out in the Prime Minister’s speech of 7 May, the Government has committed to funding the Samaritans helpline up to 2022. We are in discussion with the Samaritans about taking this forward.

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