Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has held discussions with the British Compressed Gases Association on the availability of helium gas used in suicides: and if he will make a statement.

My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health has not met recently with the British Compressed Gases Association about the use of helium gas in suicides. However, Departmental officials have been in contact with the British Compressed Gases Association and other stakeholders about this issue for a number of years.