Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many men under the age of 45 died as a result of suicide in each of the last ten years for which figures are available.

​The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to Lord Black of Brentwood, dated 24 April 2018

Dear Lord Black,

As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Question asking how many men under the age of 45 died as a result of suicide in each of the last ten years for which figures are available (HL7045).

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes suicide statistics for the UK, constituent countries, regions and local authorities in England and Wales in our annual bulletin which can be found on the ONS website[1].

Table 1 shows the number of suicides in males under the age of 45 for the last ten years for which data are available, in the UK.

Table 1: Number of suicides in males under the age of 45, deaths registered in 2007 to 2016, UK[2]^{,[3],[4],[5][6]}

Yours sincerely

John Pullinger

[1]https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/2016registrations

[2] The National Statistics definition of suicide is intentional self-harm (ICD10 codes X60-X84) for those aged 10 and over and Injury/poisoning of undetermined intent (ICD10 codes Y10-Y34) for those aged 15 and over.

[3] Figures are for persons aged 10 years and over.

[4] Figures are for deaths registered, rather than deaths occurring in each calendar year. Due to the length of time it takes to complete a coroner’s inquest, it can take months or even years for a suicide to be registered. More details can be found in the 'Suicides in the UK' bulletin: www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/previousReleases

[5] Deaths of non-residents are included in figures for the UK.

[6] Figures for the UK include data kindly provided by the National Records of Scotland and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.