Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department provides to families affected by suicide.

Under the NHS Long Term Plan, we plan to invest £57 million to support local suicide prevention plans and establish suicide bereavement support services in all areas of England by 2023/24. We have committed that all local systems will have suicide bereavement support services providing timely and appropriate support to families and staff by 2023/24 and have provided funding to 40% of local systems in 2020/21 for them to establish and deliver such services. This is in line with the planning and delivery expectations set out in the Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20-2023/24.