Written questions

Pupils and Students: Suicide

Commons · Question 23434 · Tabled 13 Jan 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 20 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Munira Wilson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a suicide prevention strategy aimed at (a) school and (b) university students.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Morgan, 20 Jan 2025

The government is committed to reducing the numbers of lives lost to suicide, including through prevention in educational institutions.The Department of Health and Social Care published a Prevention Strategy for England on 11 September 2023 with over 130 ...