Question follow-through · 28687
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust: Death Certificates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) he and (b) his Department has had discussions with County Durham and Darlington Foundation NHS Trust on delays to death certification.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
4 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) he and (b) his Department has had discussions with County Durham and Darlington Foundation NHS Trust on delays to death certification.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Government is monitoring the impact of the death certification reforms, which came into legal effect on 9 September 2024, but has not engaged with the County Durham and Darlington Foundation NHS Trust directly.The median time taken to register a death...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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