§ Mr. HansonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many suicide verdicts have been recorded for(a) men and (b) women aged under 25 years in each of the last 20 years. [20803]
§ Mr. SackvilleInformation on the age of persons whose deaths are the subject of an inquest is not collected centrally. The number of verdicts of suicide for males and females respectively returned at inquests held by coroners in England and Wales for the 20 years up to 1994, the last year for which figures are available, are given in the table. The information has been extracted from the annual series of Home Office Statistical Bulletins, "Statistics of deaths reported to Coroners, England and Wales", copies of which are in the Library.
Males Females 1975 2,178 1,539 1976 2,290 1,479 1977 2,340 1,569 1978 2,279 1,585 1979 2,539 1,606 1980 2,613 1,669 1981 2,807 1,664 1982 2,831 1,525 1983 2,778 1,464 1984 2,857 1,483 1985 2,944 1,452 1986 2,892 1,253 1987 2,840 1,147 1988 3,087 1,155 1989 2,773 984 1990 3,007 970 1991 2,968 870 1992 3,070 921 1993 2,875 865 1994 2,750 787