Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to collect information centrally on how many local authorities have suicide prevention strategies.

Data is currently not collected centrally on how many local authorities have in place local suicide prevention strategies and multi-agency prevention groups.

I will be meeting soon with Departmental officials and our delivery partner organisations on suicide prevention to explore ways in which we can work together to progress the National Suicide Prevention Strategy, including improving local delivery of the Strategy, and the collection of information.