You asked
Please reveal how many suicides were committed by students at British Universities in the past 5 academic years (September – August) broken down into 12-month periods up until the most recent possible date. If possible, could they also be split into how many suicides took place by students at each individual University in the UK.
We said
Thank you for your query regarding suicide data.
Mortality data held by ONS is collected from the information provided at death registration.
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 this information is already available to you via this route ONS considers that S21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.