Question follow-through · 27586
Burial: Minority Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure bodies of deceased individuals are released promptly to families from minority religious communities.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 30 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 5 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure bodies of deceased individuals are released promptly to families from minority religious communities.
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Feb 2025
Answer published
Since 9 September 2024, all deaths in any health setting that are not investigated by a coroner will be reviewed by NHS medical examiners. NHS England has published the National Medical Examiner’s guidance which stipulates that arrangements at each medica...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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