Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department took to mark International Men's Day on 19 November 2020.

International Men’s Day offers an opportunity to highlight how outcomes for men and boys can be improved and to talk about some of the important work going on every day across Government to do this.

The Ministry of Justice marked International Men’s Day with the following range of activities:

- Eight events for colleagues to mark International Men’s Day lead by the Staff Networks. These events included an awareness building session on prostate cancer and an intersectional event covering the support available to men who have suffered domestic abuse.

- Articles and blogs featured on the organisation’s intranet to mark International Men’s Day.

- Other activities across MoJ have included a workshop on men’s health that signposted staff to useful information, links and other resources; the annual Men’s Health and Wellbeing event where over 200 colleagues attended; and an awareness event preventing male suicide and self-harm.