HC Deb 18 April 1996 vol 275 cc589-91W
Mr. Llwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list 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) (b) as a percentage of (a). [25163]

Mr. Gwilym Jones

The information requested, supplied by the office for national statistics, is for 1994 and is given in the table, based on the recently revised definition of suicides set out in the footnote.

District of residence Suicides1— total Suicides1 farmers2 Farmers suicides as a percentage of all suicides
Alyn and Deeside 8
Colwyn 14
Delyn 11 1 9.1
Glyndwr 6 1 16.7
Rhuddlan 8
Wrexham Maelor 10
Carmarthen 5 1 20.0
Ceredigion 9
Dinefwr 4 1 25.0
Llanelli 9
Preseli
Pembrokeshire 9
District of residence Suicides1—total Suicides1 farmers2 Farmers suicides as a percentage of all suicides
South
Pembrokeshire 3
Blaenau Gwent 5
Islwyn 1
Monmouth 11
Newport 10
Torfaen 10
Aberconwy 11
Arfon 7
Dwyfor 3
Meirionnydd 8 1 12.5
Ynys Môn Isle of Anglesey 6 1 16.7
Cynon Valley 4
Merthyr Tydfil 7
Ogwr 16
Rhondda 11
Rhymney Valley 6
Taff Ely 9
Brecknock 11 2 18.2
Montgomeryshire 2 1 50.0
Radnorshire 8 1 12.5
Cardiff 38
Vale of Glamorgan 9 1 11.1
Lliw Valley 9 1 11.1
Neath 5
District of residence Suicides1—total Suicides1farmers2 Farmers suicides as a percentage of all suicides
Port Talbot 7
Swansea 21
Wales 331 12 3.6
1International Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death (9th revision): ICD E950–E959, E980–E989 (excluding E988.8)—suicides and undetermined deaths (excluding other specified means).
2Farmers, farm managers and horticulturists.