Question follow-through · 10773

Civil Society: Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to provide further funding to (a) voluntary community and (b) social enterprise organisations responding to local suicide rates.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 23 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 28 Oct 2024
Answer: 31 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

23 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to provide further funding to (a) voluntary community and (b) social enterprise organisations responding to local suicide rates.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government has committed to tackling suicide. We will recruit an additional 8,500 new mental health workers, and these new staff will be specially trained to support people at risk of suicide.The Department continues to provide funding to a wide range...

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