Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many customer suicides have been reported by gambling operators in each of the past five years.

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the noble Lord’s Parliamentary Question of 21 December is attached.

Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician

The Rt Rev. The Lord Bishop of St Albans

House of Lords

London

SW1A 0PW

10 January 2023

Dear Lord Bishop,

As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking how many customer suicides have been reported by gambling operators in each of the past five years (HL4504). The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes statistics on deaths registered in England and Wales. Mortality statistics are compiled from information supplied when deaths are certified and registered as part of civil registration. As gambling operators do not contribute to this process, the ONS does not hold any information on suicides that have been reported by gambling operators.

Yours sincerely,

Professor Sir Ian Diamond