Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to provide suicide prevention support for young adults.

We will recruit an additional 8,500 new mental health workers, and these new staff will be specially trained to support people at risk of suicide. The five-year Suicide Prevention Strategy for England identifies young people as a priority area for action to reduce suicides, and we will explore opportunities to go further.

The Department continues to provide funding to a wide range of national and local voluntary and community organisations to support their work on suicide prevention through the £10 million Suicide Prevention Grant Fund, which runs to March 2025. This includes PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide, who play an important role in supporting young people at risk of mental ill health and suicide.