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Mr. Devlin
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a table showing the number of suicides in Durham prison in each of the last 15 years.
Mr. Mellor
[holding answer 8 February 1990]: The table gives the numbers of deaths at Durham prison since 1975 for which a suicide verdict was returned at the inquest:
| Number | |
| 1975 | — |
| 1976 | — |
| 1977 | — |
| 1978 | 2 |
| 1979 | — |
| 1980 | — |
| 1981 | — |
| 1982 | 1 |
| 1983 | — |
| 1984 | 1 |
| 1985 | 2 |
| 1986 | — |
| 1987 | 3 |
| 1988 | 1 |
| 1989 | 2 |
| 11990 | — |
| 1 To 8 February 1990. | |