Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department will provide for the suicide prevention strategy.

We have committed to publish a new national suicide prevention strategy later this year and are engaging widely across the sector to understand what further action we can take to reduce suicides amongst different groups. We will publish the new strategy this year.

We are already investing an additional £57 million in suicide prevention from 2019/20 to 2023/24 through the NHS Long Term Plan. Through this, all areas of the country are seeing investment to support local suicide prevention plans and the development of suicide bereavement services.