You asked
Please provide the number of deaths recorded as suicide for 2017, 2018 and 2019 in:
Wigan, St Helens, Leigh (Greater Manchester), Atherton (Greater Manchester), Tyldesley (Greater Manchester), Greater Manchester, Merseyside and the UK.
We said
Thank you for your query. Suicide data by local authority can be found in the following link which is published as part of our annual Suicides in the UK release. Table 1 here provides the number of deaths in each local authority registered between 2002 and 2018 and Table 2 provides the rate of suicide in rolling three-year aggregates to ensure reliable rates can be produced.
Suicide data for the UK can be found in Table 1, which provides the number of suicides and age-standardised suicide rates (with 95 per cent confidence limits): by sex for the UK, 1981 to 2018 registrations.
The number of deaths is presented to 2018, which is the latest available year of complete death registrations. Data for 2019 are not yet available.
Data for other areas are available to commission as a bespoke analysis. Such services would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and would be subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreement of costs where appropriate.
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