Broadmoor Hospital: Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many deaths recorded as suicide there have been at Broadmoor Hospital in each year since 1997. (170343)

This information is not held centrally. However, Broadmoor hospital has supplied the following data in the following table.

*Deaths in Broadmoor since 1997 from West London Mental Health NHS Trust*
	Number of suicides (suspected or with inquest verdict)	Other deaths (natural causes)	Total deaths
1997	1	5	6
1998	2	1	3
1999	6	6	12
2000	1	3	4
2001	0	2	2
2002	2	4	6
2003	0	1	1
2004	0	¹4	4
2005	3	2	3
2006	0	3	3
2007²	3	2	5
¹ This includes one homicide. ² To 30 November 2007.

Volume 470: debated on Monday 7 January 2008