You asked
I am e-mailing a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
In order to assist you with this request, I am outlining my query as specifically as possible. If however this request is too wide or too unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me as I understand that under the Act, you are required to advise and assist requesters.
Please provide me with the number of people - up to and including the age of 21 - who have committed suicide in the last 5 years
Please provide this information broken down my age and gender
Please provide this information for 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and year to date 2015
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.