Prisoners: Suicide
(asked on 26th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many self-inflicted deaths in prisons in England and Wales in 2016 were as a consequence of drug use.
This question was answered on 31st January 2017
The Government publishes statistics on deaths in custody quarterly, and updated detailed tables, including the method used in self-inflicted deaths, annually. The most recent figures, covering the whole of 2016, were published on 26 January 2017 and are available on GOV.uk.