Deaths by murder and suicide

You asked

I would like the following information in relation to deaths caused by murder and suicide in the UK:

1) In the last three tax years how many deaths have been caused by suicide in the UK.

2) In the last three tax years how many people have been murdered in the UK.

3) For murder and suicide, which county has the highest statistics for each?

We said

Thank you for your request.

Figures are presented for the number of deaths by suicide in calendar years on the ONS website:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/2016registrations

The information for deaths due to suicide and murder by tax year you have requested along with other special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to: mortality@ons.gov.uk. We recommend that you contact the Mortality Analysis team directly in order to discuss your data requirements in more detail.

As the only information that can be provided is already available to you via this route, we consider that s.21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S.21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.