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Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answers by Lord Agnew of Oulton on 7 November and Lord Ashton of Hyde on 6 November (HL Deb, col 1594), what assessment they have made of the presence of sites that promote suicide on the internet, in the light of research published by the University of Manchester in May 2016 which found that 22 per cent of suicide victims had been bullied and 27 per cent of victims had been experiencing academic pressures at school, college or university.  HL2978

Question HL2978: tabled on 7 November 2017 and due for answer by 21 November 2017

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Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answers by Lord Agnew of Oulton on 7 November and Lord Ashton of Hyde on 6 November (HL Deb, col 1594), what assessment they have made of the presence of sites that promote suicide on the internet, in the light of research published by the University of Manchester in May 2016 which found that 22 per cent of suicide victims had been bullied and 27 per cent of victims had been experiencing academic pressures at school, college or university.  HL2978
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