Question follow-through · 30717
Self-harm
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to ensure the proposed offence of (a) encouraging or (b) assisting self-harm will not criminalise (i) people or (ii) charities providing support to affected people; whether she plans to iss
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 11 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 17 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to ensure the proposed offence of (a) encouraging or (b) assisting self-harm will not criminalise (i) people or (ii) charities providing support to affected people; whether she plans to iss
13 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Feb 2025
Answer published
Section 184 of the Online Safety Act 2023 gave partial effect to a Law Commission recommendation to create an offence of encouraging or assisting self-harm. The proposed new offence of encouraging or assisting serious self-harm intends to replace (in so f...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Funerals: Codes of Practice and Inspections
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Prisons: Education
2 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prison education staff have been made redundant in each of the past 12 months.
Police Custody and Prison officers: Industrial Disputes
10 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of reinstating the right to strike for prison and custody officers.
Prison Officers: Retirement
10 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of lowering the the retirement age for prison officers.
Prisons: Education
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has had recent discussions with relevant stakeholders on moving the departmental responsibility for the provision of education within prisons from the Ministry of Justice to the Department for Educatio