§ Mr. Gowasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people have died in each of the last five years and in the first six months of the current year as a result of falling, voluntarily or involuntarily, from the cliffs in the area known as Beachy Head, near Eastbourne.
§ Mr. MeacherThe numbers of bodies found dead on the face or at the foot of Beachy Head cliffs were as follows:
1970 … … 5 1971 … … 9 1972 … … 6 1973 … … 13 1974 … … 14 1975 (6 months) … … 7
§ Mr. Gowasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the number of deaths by suicide in the United Kingdom in each of the past five years and for the first six months of 1975.
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§ Mr. MeacherThe numbers for the United Kingdom are as follows:
1970 … … 4,397 1971 … … 4,376 1972 … … 4,238 1973 … … 4,329 1974 … … 4,328* 1975 … … No figures yet available. * Provisional for Great Britain. The figure for Northern Ireland is not yet available.