FOI ref: FOI/2022/4626
You asked
Would I be able to request how many suicides there was in Milton Keynes on 20th April 2019 ?
We said
Thank you for your request.
Due to our Policy on protecting confidentiality in tables of birth and death statistics we are unable to offer further disaggregation at this geographical level as this would release identifiable information. Section 39 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (SRSA) renders it a criminal offence to disclose information held by our organisation for statistical purposes that would identify an individual. This includes individuals who are deceased. As we are prohibited by law from publishing statistics in which individuals can be identified, Section 44(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies.
However, we have published annual suicide data by local authority in case this is of interest, accessible via the following link: Suicides by local authority in England and Wales. In 2019, there were 27 suicides in Milton Keynes.