HC Deb 04 May 1994 vol 242 cc533-4W
Mr. Llwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 25 March,Official Report, column 454, if he will publish for each district council in Wales, and for Wales as a whole, for the latest available year (a) the total number of suicides, (b) the number of suicides by farmers and (c) the figures in (b) as a percentage of (a); and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Redwood

The information requested is for 1992 and is shown in the following table:

(a) (b) (c)
Residents of: Total suicides and undetermined deaths Suicides and undetermined deaths of farmer1 Farmers1 suicides as a percentage of total suicides
Alyn and Deeside 9
Colwyn 10 1 10
Delyn 5
Glyndwr 6 1 16.7
Rhuddlan 6
Wrexham Maelor 19
Carmarthen 9
Ceredigion 6
Dinefwr 9 1 11.1
Llanelli 13
Preseli Pembrokeshire 7
South Pembrokeshire 5
Blaenau Gwent 10
Islwyn 2
Monmouth 7
Newport 16
Torfaen 10
Aberconwy 10
Arfon 13
Dwyfor 3
Meirionnydd 5
Ynys Mon-Isle of Anglesey 12

(a) (b) (c)
Residents of: Total suicides and undetermined deaths Suicides and undetermined deaths of farmer1 Farmers1 suicides as a percentage of total suicides
Cynon Valley 3
Merthyr Tydfil 7
Ogwr 18
Rhondda 10
Rhymney Valley 14
Taff-Ely 13
Brecknock 4
Montgomeryshire 6 1 16.7
Radnor 6 1 16.7
Cardiff 38
Vale of Glamorgan 11
Lliw Valley 9
Neath 9
Port Talbot 5
Swansea 29 1 3.4
Wales 374 6 1.6
1 Farmers, horticulturalists and farm managers.

Source: OPCS.