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PM faces call for inquiry into ‘avoidable deaths’ linked to welfare ‘failures’

SNP Neil Gray (Airdrie & Shotts) raised the issue during Prime Minister’s Questions.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2020-03-11 13:34
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Home Secretary Priti Patel and Prime Minister Boris Johnson during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London.

Home Secretary Priti Patel and Prime Minister Boris Johnson during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London.

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The Prime Minister is facing fresh calls, backed by a group of mental health organisations, to instruct an inquiry into “avoidable deaths linked to failures in the UK social security system”.

SNP Neil Gray (Airdrie & Shotts) raised the issue during Prime Minister’s Questions as he asked when Boris Johnson will press ahead with such an inquiry to “listen to those families and the experts in this case”.

Responding, Mr Johnson acknowledged that “there are indeed some very hard cases and some very tragic outcomes”.

Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey, he added, “is indeed looking at that”.

? @SnpAllan: "Will the Prime Minister show his support for veterans' mental health today by initiating an urgent review into the redistribution of critical funding to stop more life-saving services from being lost?" #PMQs

— The SNP (@theSNP) March 11, 2020

Speaking in the Commons, Mr Gray said: “This morning, a range of expert mental health organisations, including the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Mind and Rethink Mental (Illness) have called for an urgent inquiry into avoidable deaths linked to failures in the UK social security system.

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“A family in my constituency lost their father and husband to suicide in these similar circumstances and they, like too many others, want answers.

“So when will the Prime Minister instruct such an inquiry to listen to those families and the experts in this case?”

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Mr Johnson replied: “There are indeed some very hard cases and some very tragic outcomes, and I know that … the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is indeed looking at that and very, very happy to work with (him) to make sure that (in) such tragic cases, the families’ needs are met.”

Related – Introduction of Universal Credit saw increase in cases of ‘psychological distress’

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