Question follow-through · 19153
Employment: Suicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to encourage employers to adopt evidence-based workplace suicide prevention practices and standards to improve employee wellbeing and reduce suicide risk.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 1 Sept 2026 · 48 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to encourage employers to adopt evidence-based workplace suicide prevention practices and standards to improve employee wellbeing and reduce suicide risk.
1 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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1 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Government’s National Suicide Prevention Strategy is the responsibility of the Department of Health and Social Care for England. Wales and Scotland have their own national strategies.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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