Question follow-through · 31060
Death Certificates: South East
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce backlogs in the death certification process in the South East.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 27 Mar 2025 · 43 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Death Certificates · 4 Mar 2025
- Health Services: Waiting Lists · 2 Jun 2025
- Workplace Pensions: National Insurance Contributions · 12 Dec 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
12 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce backlogs in the death certification process in the South East.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Government is monitoring the impact of the death certification reforms, which came into legal effect on 9 September 2024. Early data indicates the median time taken to register a death appears to have risen by one day, from seven days to eight days. T...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Death Certificates
4 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2025 to Question 31062 on Death Certificates, what the median time taken was to register a death at the most localised level for which data is available.
Health Services: Waiting Lists
2 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Department for Health and Social Care's press release entitled Crack teams get patients off waiting lists at twice the speed, published on 16 March 2025, what estimate he has
Workplace Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
12 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Budget 2025, what assessment he has of the potential impact of the proposed changes to the salary sacrifice policy for employee pension contributions on the number of hours worked