Question follow-through · 129380
Criminal Investigation: Self-harm
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued to police forces on assessing the risk of self-harm of people released under investigation.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2026 · 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
22 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued to police forces on assessing the risk of self-harm of people released under investigation.
28 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2026
Answer published
Decisions on release and safeguarding are operational matters for individual and operationally independent police forces, taken in accordance with the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, its Codes of Practice, and national professional guidance. His Ma...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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