HC Deb 17 July 1990 vol 176 cc462-4W
Mr. Harry Greenway

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, pursuant to his answer on suicides by prison officers in Brixton prison,Official Report, 3 July, column 485, he will give the figures for suicides in other local and trainer prisons in 1989.

Mr. Mellor

The table gives, for each prison service establishment, the number of inmates who died by their own hand in 1989 and, of these cases, the number in which verdicts of suicide were returned at coroners' inquests.

Before 1 January 1990 no central record was kept of the causes of deaths of prison officers. That information is therefore not readily available and could not be obtained except at disproportionate cost.

Deaths of inmates of Her Majesty's prison service establishments at their own hand in 1989
Establishment Suicide verdicts Other verdicts Total self-inflicted deaths
Acklington
Albany
Aldington
Ashford
Ashwell
Askham Grange
Aylesbury
Bedford
Birmingham
Blantyre House
Blundeston
Bristol 1 1
Brixton 2 6 8
Brockhill
Buckley Hall
Bullwood Hall
Camp Hill
Campsfield House
Canterbury 2 1 3
Cardiff 1 1
Castington 1 1
Channings Wood
Chelmsford
Coldingley
Cookham Wood
Dartmoor 1 1
Deerbolt
Dorchester
Dover
Downview
Drake Hall
Durham 2 2
East Sutton Park
Eastwood Park
Erlestoke
Exeter 1 1

Establishment Suicide verdicts Other verdicts Total self-inflicted deaths
Featherstone
Feltham
Finnamore Wood
Ford
Foston Hall
Frankland 1 1
Full Sutton
Garth 1 1
Gartree
Glen Parva 1 1
Gloucester 1 1
Grendon
Guys Marsh
Haslar
Hatfield
Haverigg
Hewell Grange
Highpoint
Hindley 1 1
Hull
Huntercombe
Kingston (Portsmouth)
Kirkham
Kirklevington Grange
Lancaster 1 1
Latchmere House
Leeds 2 2
Leicester
Lewes 1 1
Leyhill
Lindholme
Littlehey 1 1
Liverpool 2 2
Long Lartin 1 1
Lowdham Grange
Low Newton
Maidstone
Manchester 4 4
Morton Hall
The Mount
New Hall
Northallerton
Northeye
North Sea Camp
Norwich
Nottingham
Onley
Oxford
Parkhurst
Portland
Preston
Pucklechurch
Ranby
Reading
Risley 2 2
Rochester 1 12
Rudgate
Send
Shepton Mallet 1 1
Shrewsbury
Spring Hill
Stafford 1 1 2
Standford Hill
Stocken
Stoke Heath
Styal
Sudbury
Swaleside
Swansea 1 1
Swinfen Hall
Thorn Cross
Thorp Arch
Usk/Prescoed
The Verne
Wakefield

Establishment Suicide verdicts Other verdicts Total self-inflicted deaths
Wandsworth 1 1
Wellingborough 1 1
Werrington
Wetherby
Whatton
Winchester 2 2
Wormwood Scrubs 1 1
Wymott
TOTALS 33 15 48
1 An inquest is yet to be held on one of the two inmates who died by their own hand at Rochester in 1989.