Oral Question·Treasury
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 18 March 2020Answered: 24 March 2020
Asked by
Joy Morrissey
Conservative — Beaconsfield
Answering Minister
the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Alex Davies-Jones)
I recently met the chief coroner. We did not discuss the specifics of this issue, but coroners have a statutory duty to investigate deaths that are not reported to them if they suspect that the cause is unknown, violent or unnatural, or that the death occurred in custody or other state detention.