Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in (a) HM Prison Northumberland, (b) the North East and (c) the UK have died by suicide whilst incarcerated in each year since 2010.

Statistics on deaths in custody in England and Wales are published quarterly. The latest statistics (up to June 2017) were published on 27 July and are available at:

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

Every death in custody is a tragedy, and we are redoubling our efforts to make prisons places of safety for those at risk. A Prison Safety Programme is implementing the reforms set out in the November 2016 Prison Safety and Reform White Paper, and we have put in place specialist regional safer custody leads to provide advice to prisons and to spread good practice on identifying and supporting prisoners at risk. We are rolling out new Suicide and Self-harm reduction training across the estate to help our staff identify risks and triggers of suicide and self-harm and understand what they can do to support prisoners at risk.