Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoner suicides there were in each prison in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.

Every death in custody is a tragedy, and we are committed to reducing the number of self-inflicted deaths in prisons.

The national statistics on safety in custody do not use the category of suicide, but that of self-inflicted death, defined as “any death of a person who has apparently taken his or her own life, irrespective of intent.”

The number of self-inflicted deaths in each prison establishment in each year from 1978 to 2014 is published in the Safety in Custody statistics, at table 1.16 in the Deaths in Prison Custody spreadsheet at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-bulletin-june-2015

An updated version of this table, including the number of self-inflicted deaths in each prison establishment in 2015, will be published on 28 January 2016.