Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of how many suicides involving (a) 10 to 14-year olds and (b) 15 to 19-year olds were the result of online bullying.

The Department does not hold information on the number of suicides by people aged 10-19 years of age as a result of online bullying.

However, the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, which is commissioned by NHS England and supported by the Department, published a thematic review in 2016, Suicide by Children and Young People in England. A copy of the report is available at the following link:

http://www.hqip.org.uk/resources/report-suicide-by-children-and-young-people-in-england/

The report identified ten common themes relating to suicides by people under 20 years of age between 2014 and 2015, including bullying (online and face-to-face) and suicide-related internet use.