Suicide: Yorkshire and the Humber

(asked on 9th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many local suicide prevention plans have been set up in Yorkshire and Humber since 2017; and how much resource from their £25 million investment has been allocated to each plan.


Answered by
Lord Bethell Portrait
Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 8th October 2020

Local authorities are responsible for developing local suicide action plans. Every local authority now has a multi-agency suicide prevention plan in place, and we are working with local government to assure the effectiveness of those plans. The Department provided almost £600,000 last year to the Local Government Association for a support programme to help local authorities strengthen their plans.

From 2019/20 to 2023/24, we are investing an additional £57 million in suicide prevention through the NHS Long Term Plan. This will see investment in all areas of the country to support local suicide prevention plans. Funding for the NHS England and NHS Improvement National Suicide Prevention Programme is allocated to sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) via a pence per head calculation.

The STPs within Yorkshire and the Humber have received around £2.6 million of this funding to support their work on suicide prevention. As part of this funding,

- South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw STP has received £1.4 million since 2018/19;

- Humber, Coast and Vale STP has received £712,000 since 2019/20 with further planned allocations in 2021/22; and

- West Yorkshire and Harrogate STP has received £519,000 in 2020/21 with further planned allocations in 2021/22 and 2022/23.

There are 15 local authorities in Yorkshire and Humber and the STPs listed above cover all local authorities.

Reticulating Splines