House of Commons: The Health Select Committee has launched a suicide prevention inquiry

Posted on August 17, 2016 by Mike Buchanan

Suicide is a deeply gendered issue in the UK, as it is globally. In the past 30 years the male:female suicide rate differential has more than doubled, from 1.7:1 to 3.5:1. Last year International Business Times published my article on the matter – here.

The Health Select Committee recently announced the launch of a suicide prevention inquiry – here. Eight of the committee’s 11 members are female, including the Chair, Dr Sarah Wollaston (C). We shall be sending a written submission (3,000 words maximum) by the deadline of 9 September, and seeking to give oral evidence to the committee. The last time I gave evidence to a House of Commons Select Committee was in 2012 – here (video, 56:50).

About Mike Buchanan

I'm a men's human rights advocate, writer, and publisher. My primary focus is leading the political party I launched in 2013, Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them). I still work actively on two campaigns I launched in early 2012, Campaign for Merit in Business and the Anti-Feminism League. In 2014 I launched The Alternative Sexism Project, aiming to raise public understanding that the sexism faced by men and boys has far more grievous consequences than the sexism faced by women and girls.
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  • cheannaich

    I would imagine that you are not getting your hopes up:
    “However, the figures also show a 14% increase in female suicide between 2013 and 2014, demonstrating the necessity of work targeted at both sexes”. From this I imagine we can all see where the support services will be concentrating their resources on.
    Couldn’t the Select Committee be more open and honest i.e. Shock horror, 14% increase in female suicides in one year. A female task force looks into it.

  • “However, the figures also show a 14% increase in female suicide between 2013 and 2014, demonstrating the necessity of work targeted at both sexes.” This from the blurb about this. Of course the % is on a much smaller number of suicides than the 80% that are male. But I’ll lay money that it will be used to focus concern on women by “feminist zealots” .

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