HC Deb 25 July 1989 vol 157 c613W
Mr. Hoyle

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drug addicts have committed suicide in prisons and remand centres in each of the last five years; in which prisons and remand centres the suicides occurred; to what the addicts were addicted; what treatment they were receiving; how many were in single cells; and how many were(a) male and (b) female.

Mr. Hurd

[holding answer 13 July 1989]: Information is readily available only from 1 January 1987; four inmates on whom verdicts of suicide have been returned since that date are known to have been addicted to drugs. The details requested are as follows:

  1. (1) 1987; HMRC Risley; heroin; treated with antidepressant drugs; single cell; female
  2. (2) 1987; HMP Canterbury; valium; treated with reduced doses of the drug of addiction and largactil; shared cell; male
  3. (3) 1988; HMRC Risley; heroin; treated with heminevrin as a sedative; single cell; male
  4. (4) 1988; HMP Lincoln; diconal tablets; treated with antidepressants; single cell; male