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Written question asked by Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat) on Thursday, 12 February 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 23 February 2009. It was answered by Lord Hanson of Flint (Labour) on Monday, 23 February 2009 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Winchester Prison: Suicide

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners at HM Prison Winchester (a) committed suicide and (b) self-harmed in each of the last five years.
Answer

The number of prisoner self-inflicted deaths and self harm at HM Prison Winchester are summarised in the table. To avoid any potential ambiguity both self harm incidents and numbers of individual self harmers are shown.

Self-inflicted deaths and self harm¹ at HMP Winchester
Self-inflicted deaths² Self harm incidents Individual self harmers
2004 0 260 119
2005 1 153 102
2006 0 155 81
2007 0 83 38
2008 3 106 54
¹ Information on self harm is derived from a high volume administrative system. The numbers have limited accuracy and should be treated as approximate.
² One further self-inflicted has occurred at HM Prison Winchester so far in 2009.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
488 c360W; 258030
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Suicide HMP Winchester
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk