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Asylum: Suicides

posted by megan | 23.05.2007 20:23

see Institute of Race Relations web site for report: Driven to Desperate Measures.
 http://www.irr.org.uk/asylum/

House of Commons - 22 May 2007 : Column 1241W
 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmhansrd/cm070522/text/70522w0015.htm#070522106000149

Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many failed asylum seekers have committed suicide in the UK before being deported in the last five years. [134804]

Mr. Byrne: The information requested is not collated centrally.

Not collated by the Home Office but is collated by IRR & NCADC.
47 asylum seekers/migrants in the UK, have taken their own lives
 http://www.ncadc.org.uk/resources/selfharm.html

posted by megan