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Please provide the following figures. Please supply me a date if they are still unavailable.
Figures:
Total number of deaths from suicide in the UK for period december 2019 - to date. Or nearest.
Please include figures to date and also those that have not been heard, but are listed with the coroner for the period above.
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Thank you for your request.
UK suicide statistics were produced by us up to 2018. These are available here. For further suicide data for Scotland and Northern Ireland data for 2019 onwards, you will need to contact National Records of Scotland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Centre, respectively, as we do not hold this data.
Suicides in England and Wales:
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. We do not hold the number of suicides that are listed with the coroner, as our mortality data is based on death certificates. A death certificate is not issued for a suicide until the inquest has been completed.
We produce provisional suicide data for England on a quarterly basis, with the most recent update including deaths that were registered from January to September of 2020. This is for deaths registered in 2020 and due to the registration delay described above, most of these deaths would have occurred in 2019. The next update of this release is due on 30 April 2021.
Finalised suicide data for England and Wales in 2020 will be published in September 2021.
The number of suicides for England and Wales for 1981 to 2019 are available here: Suicides in England and Wales: 2019 registrations. This publication is updated annually in September, when a publication date is finalised it will be added to our release calendar.
UK suicide statistics were produced by ONS up to 2018, available here. For further suicide data for Scotland and Northern Ireland data for 2019 onwards, you will need to contact National Records of Scotland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Centre, respectively.