Karl McCartney – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Women and Equalities

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Karl McCartney on 2016-01-11.

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to reduce the number of men who die as a result of suicide.

Caroline Dinenage

Every death by suicide is a tragedy. That is why we asked local areas to support an ambition to work towards ‘zero suicides’.

We will continue to drive the implementation of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy to address the rise in suicides, focusing on high risk groups such as men.

The Department of Health is working with partner organisations to look at ways of strengthening the National Strategy.