Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 30921

Suicide: Missing Persons

Tabled: 11 February 2025
Answered: 25 February 2025
Named Day

Question

Sarah Hall

Labour (Co-op)Warrington South

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the correlation between trends in the number of people (a) going missing and (b) committing suicide.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
The actions set out in the National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England will apply to missing people where relevant. However, we are not taking any specific actions targeted at measuring and reducing suicide rates among people reported missing. As par...

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