Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the suicide rate in England was in 2016.

The Department does not hold this information. The Office of National Statistics publishes suicide statistics annually, however the most recent available data for suicide rates is for 2015 and can be found here:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/previousReleases

Statistics for 2016 suicide rates will be published in due course.