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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many cases of (a) assisted suicide and (b) euthanasia have been reported in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many cases of (a) assisted suicide and (b) euthanasia have been reported in each of the last five years.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Jill Matheson, dated December 2013:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many cases of (a) assisted suicide and (b) euthanasia have been reported in each of the last five years. [179256]
It is not possible to provide figures for the number of cases of assisted suicide or euthanasia from the routine death registration data held by ONS. Such cases, where known, would be categorised as homicides and would be coded as assault because assisted suicide and euthanasia are illegal in England and Wales.
The mortality data held by the ONS is based on the conditions and circumstances recorded on the medical certificate of cause of death, or the coroner's death certificate, for deaths in England and Wales. The data is coded using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). Residents of England and Wales may travel overseas to a country where assisted suicide or euthanasia is legal, and these deaths would be registered in the country in which they occurred.
Figures for suicides in the United Kingdom, England, Wales and regions of England are published annually on the ONS website and are available from 1981 onwards. The latest statistical bulletin also includes analysis of the impact of registration delays on UK suicide statistics:
www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/subnational-health4/suicides-in-the-united-kingdom/index.html