Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many self-inflicted deaths there were of former (a) women and (b) male prisoners in England in each of the last five years.

Data about deaths of offenders under probation supervision can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/deaths-of-offenders-in-the-community-annual-update-to-march-2017. The next set of figures, up to March 2018, is expected to be published in October.

Not every offender released from custody is under probation supervision, so some deaths will not be shown in those figures. The statistical data about deaths that is available from other sources does not record whether or not the deceased had previously been imprisoned.