AQW 1372/22-27 Written question to the Minister of Finance
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the number of deaths in which drugs were a factor, broken down by constituency, in each of the past five years.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 13 June 2022
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 13 June 2022
- Answer due by
- 28 June 2022
- Answered
- 23 June 202210 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Finance
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) collates and publishes data on death registrations as collected by the General Register Office.
The information requested is provided in the table below. It should be noted that following the recently concluded review of suicide statistics, the number of drug-related deaths (along with other causes of death), for the period 2015-2020 are subject to slight revision. Revised data on deaths by cause will be published later this month.
Further information on the review of suicide statistics is available online at https://www.nisra.gov.uk/publications/review-suicide-statistics-northern-ireland
Table 1: Drug-Related deaths by Parliamentary Constituency, 2016-2020
| Name | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| BELFAST EAST | 8 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 16 |
| BELFAST NORTH | 18 | 14 | 28 | 40 | 29 |
| BELFAST SOUTH | 9 | 13 | 14 | 21 | 15 |
| BELFAST WEST | 7 | 12 | 21 | 23 | 28 |
| EAST ANTRIM | 7 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 10 |
| EAST LONDONDERRY | 7 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 7 |
| FERMANAGH AND SOUTH TYRONE | 6 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 7 |
| FOYLE | 10 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 18 |
| LAGAN VALLEY | 5 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 7 |
| MID ULSTER | 3 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 6 |
| NEWRY AND ARMAGH | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 10 |
| NORTH ANTRIM | 8 | 8 | 16 | 6 | 21 |
| NORTH DOWN | 6 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 18 |
| SOUTH ANTRIM | 7 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 5 |
| SOUTH DOWN | 6 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 6 |
| STRANGFORD | 5 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| UPPER BANN | 8 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 9 |
| WEST TYRONE | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| All | 127 | 136 | 189 | 191 | 218 |