You asked
I write to ask a Freedom of Information request for the following information:
Total number of deaths by suicide or undetermined intent for Teachers, Deputy Headteachers and Headteachers aged 18 and above in England and Wales each year since 2010.
We said
Statistics on suicides involving teachers have not been produced by ONS, and therefore the information as requested is not held.
Special extracts and tabulations of suicide data by occupation 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.