§ Mr. Dubsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for (a) registration with entitlement, (b) naturalisation and (c) registration of minors his Department received between (i) April 1983 and March 1984, (ii) April 1984 and March 1985 and (iii) April 1985 and the nearest available date.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe numbers of applications received by type of application are:
Notes:
(1) Part-time staff are reckoned at half a full-time post.
(2) The 1984 figures for staff working wholly on processing applications are estimates.
§ Mr. Dubsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) applications and (b) grants of British citizenship have been made in each month since April 1985 for (i) naturalisation, (ii) registration with entitlement and (iii) registration of minors.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe information available is as follows:
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe number of prisoners adjudged by inquests as having committed suicide in prison custody and the number of prisoners recorded as having injured themselves with apparent suicidal attempt in England and Wales was as follows:
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Year Suicide Non-fatal self injury with apparent suicidal intent 1979 21 250 1980 21 271 1981 16 214 1982 18 243 1983 †21 212 1984 †23 390 1985 ‡21 * * Not yet available. † Including in each year one prisoner who died in an outside hospital as a result of a suicide attempt before his reception into prison custody. ‡ Inquest verdicts on 16 prisoners who died in custody during 1985 are still awaitedd; some of these are likely to be verdicts of suicide.