HC Deb 24 July 2002 vol 389 c1463W
Mr. McNamara

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many child suicides in prisons there were, broken down by(a) age and (b) prison in each year since 1990. [72050]

Mr. Hilary Benn

[holding answer 23 July 2002]The available information is set out in the tables. The number of self-inflicted deaths of young prisoners from 1990 to 2002 (to 17 July 2002) are shown in Table 1.

Table 2: Self-Inflicted Deaths of Young Prisoners by Prison: 1990–2002*
Establishment 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Totals
Altcourse 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2
Aylesbury 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2
Brinsford 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 5
Brixton 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Cardiff 0 0 0 0 I 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Deerbolt 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Doncaster 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 4
Exeter 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Feltham 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 6
Glen Parva 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3
Gloucester 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Hindley 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 8
Leeds 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Lewes 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Low Newton 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 5
Moorland 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Parc 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Portland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Reading 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2
Stoke Heath 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Swansea 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Swinfen Hall 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Wetherby 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3
Totals 7 2 3 1 5 2 5 5 9 4 6 5 1 55
*Up to and including 17 July 2002.

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