HC Deb 16 May 1995 vol 260 c129W
Mr. Wigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the suicide rates for persons employed in agriculture in each county of Wales. [23407]

Mr. Gwilym Jones

The latest available information is for deaths registered as suicide in 1993 and is given in the following table:

Suicide of farmers and farm workers in Wales, 1993
Number Rate per 1,000 farmers and farm workers1
Clwyd 1 0.14
Dyfed 5 0.28
Gwent 1 0.26
Gwynedd
Mid Glamorgan
Powys 4 0.39
South Glamorgan
West Glamorgan
Wales 11 0.22

Source:

Office of Population Censuses and Surveys and June Agricultural Census.

Note:

1 At June 1993, as estimated by the Agricultural Census which excludes very small holdings with very little or no agricultural activity.

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