You asked
Please may I request the number of suicides in England by date or month of birth, broken down by gender and if possible socio-economic status, employment status and age at death? I am investigating childhood dis/advantage associated with age in (school) year in England.
We said
Thank you for your query regarding suicide data.
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.