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Mr. Alex Carlile
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners under 21 years old have committed suicide in custody in each year since 1979; and if he will make a statement.
Mrs. Rumbold
[holding answer 6 November 1991]: The information requested is set out in the table:
| Deaths of prisoners aged under 21 at their own hand in Her Majesty's prison service establishment 1979–912 | |
| Number | |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 3 |
| 1981 | 3 |
| 1982 | 4 |
| 1983 | 3 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1985 | 3 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 7 |
| 1988 | 9 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1990 | 9 |
| 19911 | 31 |
| 1 (to 4 November). | |
| 2 Includes all deaths which appear to have been deliberately self-inflicted, whether or not a verdict of suicide was recorded at the inquest. | |
| 3 Inquests have yet to be held on 3 other prisoners under 21 who have died in 1991. | |