The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 20 April 2007:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many suicides were committed in each London borough in each of the last ten years. I am replying in her absence. (132919)
The attached table provides the number of deaths where suicide was the underlying cause of death, in each London Borough, from 1996 to 2005 (the latest year available).
Deaths (persons) 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Greater London 628 667 778 682 621 630 630 659 627 620 Inner London 310 324 352 334 295 308 298 306 305 291 Camden 28 28 45 31 30 25 25 30 38 27 City of London 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 Hackney 26 18 22 23 20 28 18 17 20 17 Hammersmith and Fulham 14 19 12 23 15 22 15 12 19 24 Haringey 26 21 21 14 15 27 21 25 18 21 Islington 22 19 26 30 23 25 30 26 36 27 Kensington and Chelsea 18 19 22 22 19 18 17 17 20 19 Lambeth 44 31 41 32 26 27 23 29 25 22 Lewisham 25 37 36 30 28 17 24 19 22 24 Newham 14 13 25 20 23 22 12 23 21 16 Southwark 25 35 29 33 29 20 26 33 24 24 Tower Hamlets 14 21 20 19 17 22 29 18 19 10 Wandsworth 24 34 33 35 21 24 31 30 20 26 Westminster 29 27 20 21 28 30 27 26 22 34 Outer London 318 343 426 348 326 322 332 353 322 329 Barking and Dagenham 7 10 13 16 11 12 12 8 8 6 Barnet 25 23 28 27 32 23 23 25 20 24 Bexley 16 18 19 21 10 15 14 18 20 12 Brent 26 23 37 23 21 23 22 22 18 14 Bromley 20 17 28 25 17 24 22 25 24 17 Croydon 38 25 28 21 25 18 20 26 21 25 Ealing 18 27 38 23 31 17 33 23 26 38 Enfield 27 16 19 18 16 29 25 24 21 20 Greenwich 16 24 25 24 9 18 14 16 18 26 Harrow 9 20 17 14 17 18 20 15 17 15 Havering 11 14 15 11 17 11 14 14 7 10 Hillingdon 26 17 24 25 21 24 23 32 16 17 Hounslow 14 16 17 20 14 16 21 10 22 18 Kingston upon Thames 10 8 22 11 7 7 14 8 18 16 Merton 10 17 15 16 17 14 12 18 13 19 Redbridge 14 17 23 12 14 12 14 23 18 14 Richmond upon Thames 6 14 19 19 24 12 6 14 13 7 Sutton 12 21 12 12 14 8 6 17 4 20 Waltham Forest 13 16 27 10 9 21 17 15 18 11 1 Cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes E950-E959 and E980-E989 excluding E988.8 for the years 1995 to 2000, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes X60-X84 and Y10-Y34 excluding Y33.9 (where the Coroner’s verdict was pending) for the years 2001 to 2004. Figures are for persons aged 15 and over. 2 Based on local authority boundaries as of 2007. 3 Figures are for deaths registered in each calendar year.