PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Health Services (14 December 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what comparative assessment he has made of (a) the level of psychiatric morbidity and suicide rate and (b) expenditure on mental health in Northern Ireland and other nations of the UK.

Asked by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)

The issue of mental health and expenditure on mental health in Northern Ireland is devolved to the Northern Ireland Executive.

The Office of National Statistics does however, release regular statistics on the rate of deaths by suicide across the United Kingdom. The statistics can be found at:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/previousReleases

Officials from the Department of Health engage with their counterparts in the Devolved Administrations on these statistics, and they discuss whether there are areas for learning on tackling mental health problems.

Answered by:
Kris Hopkins (Conservative)
21 December 2016