Jess Phillips – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2015-10-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people (a) attempted to take and (b) took their own lives at Foston Hall Prison, Derbyshire, was in each of the last five years.

Andrew Selous

Information on all deaths in prison custody and self-harm incidents, including at HMP Foston Hall, can be found in the Safety in Custody statistics which are published quarterly at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics.

NOMS does not record ‘attempted suicide’ as a category of incident as the intention of the prisoner may not be known reliably.

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