Data on veteran mental health and disability

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Iain Overton
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Dear Ministry of Defence,

I understand that Mr J Mercer wants to make this country the best place in the world for veterans. To this end, can I ask how Mr Mercer proposes to gauge success in this area? More specifically can I ask the following under FOI:

Can you please share reports or data that Mr Mercer's office has on the following (specifically data - broken down by year if possible) in the last decade:

- the number of veterans who are homeless
- the number of veterans who have committed suicide
- the number of veterans living with life-changing combat injuries

Yours faithfully,

Iain Overton

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Le Grand Rosales, Maria D (Analysis-Publications-3), Ministry of Defence

Dear Iain Overton

 

Thank you for contacting the Ministry of Defence.

 

Your request for recorded information is currently being considered under
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You are entitled to receive a written response no later than 11 November
2020.

 

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Regards,

 

Defence Statistics

 

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Analysis-Health-PQ-FOI (MULTIUSER), Ministry of Defence

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Dear Mr Overton,

 

Please find attached a response to your recent request.

 

Kind regards,

Defence Statistics Health

 

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Strategy for our Veterans 6 monthly report

August 2022

'We will undertake a study into veteran suicide from September this year. It will look at the number of veteran suicides between 2011 and 2021 and compare the figure with the non-veteran population.'

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk...

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' A 12 week long UK-wide Veterans’ Survey has been launched today (10 November)

The survey is the first ever government funded survey for all veterans across the country to provide their views

The survey launches alongside the Office for National Statistics’ release of Census 2021 data on the veteran population.

The government has launched the first ever UK-wide survey, for veterans and their families.'

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-ve...

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Suicide after leaving the UK Armed Forces 1996-2018: a cohort study

'Methods and findings We conducted a retrospective cohort study of suicide in personnel who left the regular UKAF between 1996 and 2018 by linking national databases of discharged personnel and suicide deaths. Of the 458,058 individuals who left the UKAF, 1,086 (0.2%) died by suicide. The overall rate of suicide in veterans was not greater than the general population (SMR [95% CI] 94 [88-99]). However, suicide risk was two to four times higher in male and female veterans aged under 25 years than in the same age groups in the general population (age-specific mortality ratios ranging from 160 to 409). Male veterans aged 35 years and older were at reduced risk of suicide (age-specific mortality ratios 47 to 80)...'

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/...

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