To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young men under 25 years have committed suicide while on remand in prison in the last year.

Eleven unsentenced male prisoners under the age of 25 years died as a result of an act of deliberate self-harm in 1991. Of these, two were convicted but awaiting sentence. Verdicts of suicide were recorded at all six of the inquests that have so far been held into these deaths.