Question follow-through · 9819
Armed Forces: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the (a) date and (b) place of every coroner's inquest that established heat as a cause of death for service personnel since 2013.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 17 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the (a) date and (b) place of every coroner's inquest that established heat as a cause of death for service personnel since 2013.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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28 Oct 2024
Answer published
From 1 January 2013 to 13 October 2024, three UK Armed Forces personnel tragically died from heat related causes confirmed by a Coroner and listed on the death certificates. All three deaths occurred in July 2013. The inquest for all three deaths began on...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Armed Forces: Health Services
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