HC Deb 22 February 1990 vol 167 cc927-8W
Mr. Devlin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a table showing the number of suicides in Durham prison in each of the last 15 years.

Mr. Mellor

[holding answer 8 February 1990]: The table gives the numbers of deaths at Durham prison since 1975 for which a suicide verdict was returned at the inquest:

Number
1975
1976
1977
1978 2
1979
1980
1981
1982 1
1983
1984 1
1985 2
1986
1987 3
1988 1
1989 2
11990
1 To 8 February 1990.

An inquest has yet to take place on a death in Durham prison in January 1990.