Railways: Suicide

(asked on 11th February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Kramer on 9 February (HL4678), whether the rise in suicides on the railway has been analysed by area, age group, sex and ethnicity of those who died.


Answered by
Baroness Kramer Portrait
Baroness Kramer
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Treasury and Economy)
This question was answered on 24th February 2015

Details of suicides by area (route), age group and sex are recorded by the rail industry but not ethnicity.

The relevant information is held by RSSB (formerly the Rail Safety & Standards Board) and is analysed to provide evidence to support the development and implementation of the industry’s suicide reduction programme.

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