asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the annual youth suicide rate since 1980.
The information is given in the table.
| Number of deaths registered as suicide (ICD(9)1 E950-E959) and rate per million population for males and females aged 10–14 and 15–19 years | ||||||
| England and Wales 1980–1985 | ||||||
| Year | ||||||
| Sex and Age-group | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 |
| Males 10–14 | ||||||
| Number | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Rate | 0·99 | 2·00 | 2·06 | 1·06 | 0·55 | 1·15 |
| Males 15–19 | ||||||
offices dealing directly with the public for each of the last five years; and how the rate differed between clerical grades and executive grades.
The following figures give the total number of local office staff leaving the Department in each grade in each of the years 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1986. This number is then expressed as a percentage of the total local office staff in post at 1 April in each year. These figures are not available before 1983. Executive grades are principal, senior executive officer, higher executive officer and local officer I. Clerical grades are local officer II and clerical assistant.
| Year | ||||||
| Sex and Age-group | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 |
| Number | 84 | 88 | 78 | 84 | 90 | 87 |
| Rate | 40·17 | 41·62 | 36·55 | 39·57 | 43·33 | 42·80 |
| Females 10–14 | ||||||
| Number | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| Rate | 0·52 | 0·53 | 1·63 | 3·35 | 0·58 | 0·61 |
| Females 15–19 | ||||||
| Number | 39 | 27 | 23 | 24 | 20 | 21 |
| Rate | 19·54 | 13·40 | 11·39 | 11·96 | 10·14 | 10·87 |
| 1 International Classification of Diseases 9th revision. | ||||||