HC Deb 29 March 1994 vol 240 c692W
Mr. Alex Carlile

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will commission a report into the rate of suicide for farmers; and if she will make a statement.

Mr. Bowis

We have commissioned Dr. K. Hawton of the University of Oxford to carry out a study of individuals in high-risk groups, including farmers, for whom verdicts of suicide or undetermined death were returned. His report is expected in December 1995.

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