HC Deb 03 February 1998 vol 305 cc585-6W
Mr. Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the dates of recorded attempted suicides in Lewes Prison since 1 January 1997. [26826]

Ms Quin

[holding answer 2 February 1998]: There have been no incidents of attempted suicide reported at Lewes prison from 1 January 1997 to date.

Since 1 April 1997, attempted suicide has not been used as an incident reporting category. These incidents are now subsumed under the category of deliberate self-harm. There has been a number of incidents of self-harm recorded at the prison between 1 January 1997 to date. The dates of these incidents are given in the table.

  • Incident date
  • 7 April 1997
  • 10 April 1997
  • 20 June 1997
  • 28 June 1997
  • 12 July 1997
  • 27 August 1997
  • 29 August 1997
  • 15 December 1997
  • 14 January 1998
  • 19 January 1998
  • 27 January 1998.