Suicides in England 2000 to 2018

You asked

Please provide a monthly number of suicides in England per age group and sex for the period 2000-2018.

We said

Thank you for your request.

Number of suicides by month and age group between 1981 and 2015 can be found in the following request:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/adhocs/007536numberofsuicidesbymonthofoccurrenceagesexandregionenglandandwales1981to2015.

The information for 2016 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.

Information is not available for 2017 or 2018.