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Lords Chamber
People with Disabilities: Access to Services - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Browning (Con - Life peer) for Work and Pensions, how many inquests relating to benefits claimants who have ended their life by suicide - Speech Link
2: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) clunky assessments.The Open University has launched some amazing initiatives, including the disabled veterans - Speech Link
3: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) Most people in this Chamber are veterans of various phases of this and its precursors. - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Community Sports: Impact on Young People - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Hannett of Everton (Lab - Life peer) supports new and expectant parents; a wide range of mental health initiatives, including one focused on suicide - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) Veterans’ teams are all very good, but they are not the future.How are we going to encourage this? - Speech Link

Written Question
Veterans: Suicide
Wednesday 24th April 2024

Asked by: Liz Twist (Labour - Blaydon)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether official statistics on suicides in armed forces veterans will be published annually.

Answered by Johnny Mercer - Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Minister for Veterans' Affairs)

The Office for Veterans’ Affairs, Office for National Statistics and the Ministry of Defence have collaboratively developed a new approach for calculating veteran suicides in England and Wales.

This year, the ONS published suicide statistics for 2021 using this new approach and it intends to continue publishing veteran suicide stats on a yearly basis.



Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Suicide Prevention - Tue 23 Apr 2024

Mentions:
1: None We must remember that it is not just expenditure on suicide prevention that dictates the suicide rates - Speech Link
2: None I was contemplating suicide. - Speech Link
3: Gallacher, Meghan (Con - Central Scotland) We have veterans groups for a purpose, we have Women’s Aid groups for a purpose, and I whole-heartedly - Speech Link
4: None We hear from veterans that they miss the camaraderie and they sometimes miss the dark humour used to - Speech Link
5: None We call it the suicide community or the suicide family, but we need to use those people much more. - Speech Link

Deposited Papers

Apr. 22 2024

Source Page: I. List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II. List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III. Letter dated 19/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.
Document: APRIL_2024_List_of_Ministerial_Responsibilities.pdf (PDF)

Found: Minister of State (Development and Africa) - The Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP Minister of State (Minister for Veterans

Select Committee
The Investment Fraud APPG
 FRA0038 - Fraud

Written Evidence Apr. 17 2024

Inquiry: Fraud
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Home Affairs Committee (Department: Home Office)

Found: Inquiry we have heard from a number of victims of investment and pension fraud who have reported suicide

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department of Health and Social Care

Mar. 28 2024

Source Page: General Medical Services Statement of Financial Entitlements Directions: previous directions
Document: The Statement of Financial Entitlements (Amendment) Directions 2012 (PDF)

Found: a Duckworth W, Abraira C, Moritz T et al. (2009) Glucose control and vascular complications in veterans

Scottish Government Publication (Progress report)
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate

Mar. 28 2024

Source Page: National Islands Plan Annual Report 2023
Document: National Islands Plan Annual Report 2023 (PDF)

Found: Creating Hope Together , our 10-year Suicide Prevention Strategy with COSLA, aims to reduce the number

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Home Office

Mar. 27 2024

Source Page: Police Covenant annual report 2024
Document: Police Covenant report 2024 (large print) (PDF)

Found: 35 Authorised Professional Practice 37 Operation Hampshire: Assaults Against Officers and Staff 39 Suicide

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Home Office

Mar. 27 2024

Source Page: Police Covenant annual report 2024
Document: Police Covenant report 2024 (PDF)

Found: Authorised Professional Practice 27 Operation Hampshire: Assaults Against Officers and Staff 28 Suicide