HC Deb 20 November 1930 vol 245 cc637-8W
Mr. KINLEY

asked the Home Secretary the numbers of suicides in Great Britain for each of the past 10 years to the latest date?

Mr. SHORT

The numbers of suicides in England and Wales have been as fellow:

1920 3,373
1921 3,715
1922 3,844
1923 3,919
1924 3,679
1925 4,054
1926 4,408
1927 4,863
1928 4,846
1929 (provisional figures) 4,907

I have no information as to Scotland, and any question should be addressed to the Secretary of State for Scotland.