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Please supply the suicide rates in Hull (males and females) in 2016/17 and the most recent suicide rate.
Please supply figures on people who have been diagnosed with mental health issues, as well as any information as to inpatient mental health admission figures in 2016/17 and the most recent figures to compare this.
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Thank you for your request.
The number of suicides for England and Wales are available via the following link: Suicides in England and Wales: 2019 registrations. Data by local authority for the period 2002 to 2019 are available in the accompanying dataset: Suicides in England and Wales by local authority. This publication will be updated to include 2020 data in September 2021; when a publication date is finalised it will be announced via our release calendar.
Suspected suicide deaths require an inquest, where a coroner investigates the death. The amount of time it takes to hold an inquest causes a delay between the date of death and the date of death registration, referred to as a registration delay. Registration delays for deaths caused by suicide tend to be 5 to 6 months on average. More information about the impact of registration delays is available here. Therefore, we do not publish data until around nine months after the last complete calendar year.
We also produce provisional suicide data for England on a quarterly basis, with the most recent update including deaths that were registered from October to December of 2020. Unfortunately, provisional data are not available by Local Authority, but figures by region are available on Table 3. This publication presents numbers of deaths registered in 2020 with the median registration delay in Quarter 4 2020 being 177 days.
Unfortunately, we do not hold information regarding mental health. NHS England may be able to assist you with your query. They can be contacted at england.contactus@nhs.net.
If you have any questions about this data, please contact: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.