Clause 2
11:15 am
Bridget Prentice (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice; Lewisham East, Labour)
Clause 2 will allow the senior coroner, who has the duty to conduct the investigation under clause 1, to ask another senior coroner to conduct such an investigation.
I want to touch briefly on military inquests, and endorse the comments of the hon. Member for North-West Norfolk about Oxfordshire and Wiltshire, which have done an outstanding job in clearing the backlog of inquests on our servicemen and women who have died in Iraq, Afghanistan or on other active service overseas. Along with the Ministry of Defence, I report regularly to the House on how those inquests are progressing.