HC Deb 01 April 1993 vol 222 c353W
Mr. Batiste

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many students at English universities have committed suicide in each of the last three years; and how many were male and how many female.

Mr. Boswell

The table shows numbers of deaths in England and Wales from suicide for full-time students aged 18 and over.

1989 1990 1991
Men 73 57 64
Women 15 15 21
Total 88 72 85

The suicides in the three years represent approximately 11 per 100,000 of the full-time student population in further and higher education aged 18 and over.