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Offenders: Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences on licence in the community have taken their own lives in each year since 2005.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
Tabled: 12 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 24 Feb 2025
Answer: 24 Feb 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

12 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences on licence in the community have taken their own lives in each year since 2005.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Feb 2025
Answer published
Table: Self-inflicted deaths of offenders serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence supervised on licence in the community, financial year 2019/20 to 2023/24, England and Wales (1) (2) (3) 2019/202020/212021/222022/232023/24 (p)Total611974(p...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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