Written Question·Home Office·UIN 96372

Suicide

Tabled: 2 December 2025
Answered: 10 December 2025

Question

Helen Maguire

Liberal DemocratEpsom and Ewell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of making it a statutory requirement for police officers to record how many suicides they attend.

Answer

Sarah Jones
The Home Office does not collect data from police about suicides they have attended and has no current plans to do so.