Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the number of suicides which occurred on UK railway lines in each of the last 15 years.

Official statistics relating to the number of suicides on the mainline railway network in Great Britain are published by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) on their website at:

https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/browsereports/5

Government and the rail industry are jointly engaged in many strands of activity to reduce the number of suicides on the rail network. Last year over 1800 lifesaving interventions were made, with 2016/17 having the lowest number of suicide events recorded on the railway since the rail industry’s suicide prevention programme began in 2010.