Question follow-through · 8025
Coroners: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the experiences of bereaved families who appeal coroners’ conclusions.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 8 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 16 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the experiences of bereaved families who appeal coroners’ conclusions.
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Oct 2024
Answer published
It is important that the inquest process is as swift and efficient as possible to avoid additional distress for bereaved families at such a difficult time in their lives. Whilst the Ministry of Justice is responsible for coroner law and policy, the Depart...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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