HC Deb 21 November 1996 vol 285 cc704-5W
Mrs. Ann Winterton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to receive the findings of the research commissioned from the Warneford hospital, Oxford, into suicides among farmers; and if he will make a statement. [4909]

Mr. Burns

The Department of Health has commissioned Professor Keith Hawton, University of Oxford, to undertake a study on suicides in high risk occupational groups, including an investigation of suicides among farmers. The study is in its final stages, and a report is expected in early 1997.