Question follow-through · 30861
Coroners
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the number of coroners working in (a) the UK and (b) North Yorkshire.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 11 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 24 Feb 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the number of coroners working in (a) the UK and (b) North Yorkshire.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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24 Feb 2025
Answer published
Coroner services are locally funded and administered across 77 coroner areas in England and Wales. Statutory responsibility for coroner appointments lies with the funding local authority in each area, and the assessment of resource is based on local casel...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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