Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children of each (a) age and (b) gender have died while in-patients (i) at psychiatric hospitals in total as either forcefully detained or voluntary in-patients and (ii) in each institution in each year since 2000.

Since April 2008 all Local Safeguarding Children Boards have had a statutory duty to review the death of all children from birth to age 18. Statistics on these Child Death Reviews are collated and published by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and are available on the CQC's website:

www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-child-death-reviews.

Statistics on the location of child deaths are available from 2010 onward and show that in this time, no child has died in an inpatient mental health unit.

According to data from the Mental Health Act Commission, six females and one male under 18 died between 2003 and 2008. Owing to patient confidentiality these figures cannot broken down to each institution.