Andrew Rosindell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Rosindell on 2014-04-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many inmates committed suicide in prison between 2010 and 2013.

Jeremy Wright

The number of self-inflicted deaths in each year is published in the Safety in Custody statistics bulletin. The latest bulletin was published on 24 April and can be found at

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics.

We are working hard to manage the levels of self-harm in prison and are carefully investigating the rise in self-inflicted deaths.

We are providing further resources and support to prisons to help support their safer custody work.