Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) suicides and (b) attempted suicides were recorded as having taken place on the strategic road network in each of the last ten years.

Whilst National Highways undertakes considerable work to use all intelligence and operational data to prevent suicide, it does not have definitive datasets on suicide related incidents on the Strategic Road Network (SRN) because classification of deaths is a matter for the Coroner. Every death on our roads is a tragedy and National Highways strives to prevent deaths and serious injuries whatever the cause.