Written Question·Home Office·UIN 84587

Suicide

Tabled: 23 October 2025

Answered: 30 October 2025

Question

Martin Vickers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of collecting data on the number of callouts police attend to (a) attempted suicides and (b) suicides in progress.

Answer

Sarah Jones

The Home Office does not collect data from police on calls about suicidal ideation or where an apparent suicide is in progress and has no current plans to do so.The College of Policing sets the professional standards for police in England and Wales. The C...

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