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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...