Mentions:
1: Chris Bloore (Lab - Redditch) Royal British Legion, which has been responsible for raising tens of thousands of pounds for our veterans - Speech Link
2: Warinder Juss (Lab - Wolverhampton West) During the previous 10 years or so, one student has died every four days in England and Wales due to suicide - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Sarah Pochin (RUK - Runcorn and Helsby) I will also be a strong voice against the prosecutions of our Northern Ireland veterans, who were so - Speech Link
2: Nadia Whittome (Lab - Nottingham East) Once they arrive, they are dying by suicide, from infectious diseases and from unknown causes in poverty - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Lemos (Lab - Life peer) now have severe and lasting mental health problems, including persistent self-harm and attempting suicide - Speech Link
2: Baroness Eaton (Con - Life peer) For example, I have heard of veterans from the Armed Forces and business leaders being brought into academies - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Simon Opher (Lab - Stroud) Mental health among men particularly is at a crisis point; in fact, suicide is a leading cause of death - Speech Link
2: Lizzi Collinge (Lab - Morecambe and Lunesdale) constituency, we have the Morecambe FC Community Foundation, which works with young people, elders, veterans - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) House honour our veteran heroes and ensure that that honour is properly recorded.At a time when veterans - Speech Link
2: Monica Harding (LD - Esher and Walton) Mayne is already one of our most decorated veterans. - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) a passionate advocate for veterans’ affairs. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: David Davis (Con - Goole and Pocklington) Issuing a challenge under those circumstances could have amounted to collective suicide. - Speech Link
2: David Davis (Con - Goole and Pocklington) Our veterans are being punished in their retirement years for decisions they made when serving their - Speech Link
3: Jesse Norman (Con - Hereford and South Herefordshire) Could he not say that now, so that veterans and their families understand that a Government Minister - Speech Link
4: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds South) I expressed that view to the veterans I met this afternoon, when I thanked them for their service in - Speech Link
5: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds South) I am consulting widely on it and will continue to do so, including with veterans and others. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) In Rotherham, male suicide is a silent tragedy on the rise. - Speech Link
2: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) to speak with veterans groups and organisations. - Speech Link
3: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) One point about suicide and male suicide is that an array of policy issues feed into it. - Speech Link
4: Amanda Martin (Lab - Portsmouth North) Yet in reports on suicide prevention action from 2022 to 2025, veterans are not even listed as a high-risk - Speech Link
5: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberafan Maesteg) We take suicide prevention extremely seriously, because every suicide is a tragedy that has a devastating - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) of the Armed Forces commissioner is somewhat different to that of a wider role that would include veterans - Speech Link
2: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) The other point is that veterans are not in scope for the commissioner. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) We referred at Second Reading to one tragic suicide case but of course there are many. - Speech Link
4: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) As civilians, veterans already have full access to a range of mechanisms for support and redress and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) With a House full of veterans, that led to a fairly rapid reverse of policy. - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) House, incidentally, by a Conservative hereditary Peer, the eighth Earl Arran, following the sad suicide - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) decisions on RSHE and gender-questioning guidance.Another area I wish to touch on today is LGBT+ veterans - Speech Link
2: Mims Davies (Con - East Grinstead and Uckfield) as we heard from the Minister, as a country we have apologised and worked to compensate our LGBT+ veterans - Speech Link
3: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) We need to right the wrongs endured by LGBT+ veterans, which I know this Government are taking aim at - Speech Link
4: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) She talked about homelessness, suicide rates and how trans people have been used as a political football - Speech Link