Sodium Nitrate: Sales
Commons · Question 48302 · Tabled 25 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 6 May 2025
Question
Asked by Zöe Franklin
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to introduce restrictions on purchasing sodium nitrate in quantities that pose a significant risk to (a) self harm and (b) life.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 6 May 2025
We are committed to implementing our suicide prevention strategy for England, which sets out priority areas and key actions to address the risk factors contributing to suicide and self-harm. Tackling methods of suicide and self-harm is one of these priori...