Question follow-through · 30922
Suicide: Missing Persons
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure his Department's work on reducing suicide rates includes measures to help those that have been reported missing.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 11 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 25 Feb 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure his Department's work on reducing suicide rates includes measures to help those that have been reported missing.
13 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Feb 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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