Question follow-through · 5304

Suicide: Gambling

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people took their own lives in each year between 2015 and 2025 where the primary cause was addiction to gambling.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
4 Jun 2026
Answer
5 Jun 2026 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people took their own lives in each year between 2015 and 2025 where the primary cause was addiction to gambling.

  2. 4 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 1st June is attached.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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