Seema Malhotra
Labour/Co-operative, Feltham and Heston
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases referred to the West London Coroners Office have been waiting more than a week for a coroner's report.
Seema Malhotra
Labour/Co-operative, Feltham and Heston
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases have been referred to the West London Coroners Office in each of the last five years.
Seema Malhotra
Labour/Co-operative, Feltham and Heston
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what funding her Department allocated to Coroner's court services in the West London Coroner District in each of the last five years.
Phillip Lee
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
The Ministry of Justice collects annual statistical data on deaths reported to coroners. The table below shows the total number of deaths reported to the West London coroner service between 2011 and 2015.
Year | Total deaths (including no further action cases) |
2011 | 3,886 |
2012 | 3,813 |
2013 | 3,858 |
2014 | 3,437 |
2015 | 3,364 |
Data on the number of cases that have been waiting more than a week is not held centrally.
The Ministry of Justice has not allocated funding to the West London coroner service as coroner services are funded by local authorities.
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