Suicide statistics (FOI)

Request

Please provide the following:

A

Annual - Suicide figures in Jersey from 2009 to date

B

Suicide figures for those awaiting to be seen by Adult Mental Health Services /JTT

Response

A

This information is routinely published by Statistics Jersey. The latest report is available on gov.je at the following link:

Jersey Mortality statistics 2017
Data is in arrears as deaths suspected to be by suicide need to have completed the inquest process before the cause of death is confirmed.

B

The requested information is not held in a reportable format. It is estimated that it would exceed the cost limits set out within the Freedom of Information regulations to provide the information, as a manual review would need to be made on each client’s record and cross checked against historic waiting lists.

Articles applied

Article 16 A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.

Article 23 Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.