Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department is providing to suicide prevention organisations.

In the last financial year, we provided £5.4 million to 113 voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations which offer help to people struggling with their mental health or thoughts of suicide.

We also provided £510,000 towards the Samaritans’ helpline for people experiencing distress.

This is in addition to the over £10 million we provided to voluntary and charitable mental health organisations in 2020/21.