Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to help younger men with their mental health.

We are investing at least £2.3 billion of additional funding a year by March 2024 through the NHS Long Term Plan to expand and transform mental health services in England so that two million more people, including younger men, will be able to get the mental health support they need.

This investment includes an additional £57 million in suicide prevention by March 2024. Through this, all areas of the country are seeing investment to support local suicide prevention plans and the development of suicide bereavement services.

The Government launched a public call for evidence on what can be done across Government in the longer term to support mental health, wellbeing, and suicide prevention, which closed on 7 July 2022. We received submissions from 5,273 respondents representing a broad range of stakeholders, including those working with younger men, from across England. These responses will feed into the development of mental health and suicide prevention policies we include in the Major Conditions Strategy and the Suicide Prevention Strategy.