Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has taken steps to increase support for suicide prevention services in Solihull constituency.

We introduced the new Suicide Prevention Strategy for England on 11 September 2023. The strategy sets an ambition to reduce the suicide rate within five years, with an initial reduction seen in half this time. The actions in the strategy are designed to impact across the country including in Solihull.

It sets out over 100 actions that will be delivered by different Government departments and organisations across different sectors to make progress towards this aim. The actions and priorities in the new strategy are informed by engagement with a wide range of stakeholders with lived experience, the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group and by the responses to the mental health and wellbeing call for evidence that ran to July 2022.