Question follow-through · 52473
Coroners: Suicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what legislative plans her Department has for requiring coroners to determine secondary causes of death following suicide.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 14 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what legislative plans her Department has for requiring coroners to determine secondary causes of death following suicide.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
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21 May 2025
Answer published
The Government has no plans to change the information which coroners are required to determine, with regard to cause of death in cases of suicide.The information recorded by the coroner in the Record of Inquest is dependent on the circumstances of the ind...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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