Question follow-through · 26533
Prisoners: Suicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people took their own life in prison while serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection sentence in 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 27 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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- Prisoners: Death · 11 Feb 2025
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Recorded timeline
27 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people took their own life in prison while serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection sentence in 2024.
29 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2025
Answer published
There were four self-inflicted deaths of those serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection in 2024. This information can be found in Table 1.7 of the 'Safety in custody: quarterly update to September 2024’. Self-inflicted deaths are any deaths...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Prisoners: Death
11 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of people that died of natural courses in prison while serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection in 2024.