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Ambulance Services: Suicide

Asked by Martin VickersConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 1 December 2025UIN 84585

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of collecting data on the number of attempted suicides attended by ambulance staff.

Answered by Dr Zubir Ahmed

The Department has made no such assessment and there are currently no plans to collect this data centrally.

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