Question follow-through · 22450
Domestic Abuse: Suicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for coronial inquiries of the 150 suspected domestic abuse-related suicides recorded by the NPCC Domestic Homicide Project; and what plans he
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for coronial inquiries of the 150 suspected domestic abuse-related suicides recorded by the NPCC Domestic Homicide Project; and what plans he
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2026
Answer published
By law, coroners must open an investigation and conduct an inquest into any death which they suspect to have been unnatural or violent. This will include cases where the death may have been the result of self-harm.However, coroners are independent judges ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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