Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many deaths by (1) suicide, and (2) natural causes, there were in prisons of people who were serving an imprisonment for public protection sentence between 1 January and 1 June.

The information requested is not currently available. Releasing data on deaths of prisoners serving Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences between 1 January and 1 June would give an early indication of future accredited official statistics.

Data on self-inflicted and natural causes deaths in custody, including annual data on self-inflicted deaths for IPP prisoners, is published in the Ministry of Justice’s “Safety in Custody” statistics. The latest available detailed deaths data covers up to December 2024 and can be found here: Safety in custody: quarterly update to September 2024 - GOV.UK.