Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey: Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing, England, 2014, published on 29 September 2016, what plans he has to address the increase in self-harm among young women aged 16 to 24; and if he will make a statement.

We are looking at ways we can strengthen our response to self-harm within the cross-Government strategy on Suicide Prevention, including those at high risk such as young women. We have welcomed the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health’s recommendation to develop a pathway of care for self-harm during 2017/18 and 2018/19, and we encourage providers to implement the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance to undertake psychosocial assessments of people who present at accident and emergency for self-harm.