Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average amount of time was that the Prison and Probation Ombudsman spent on an investigation into a self-inflicted death in each year since 2010.

The PPO is able to quantify the time spent on an investigation into self-inflicted deaths by looking at the time it takes to issue an initial report. For self-inflicted death investigations, there is a timeliness target of 26 (working) weeks from the point of notification until when the initial report is issued.

The following table presents, for each calendar year, the average number of working weeks that a self-inflicted case took from the start of the investigation to the initial report being issued.