Oral Question·Department for Transport
“What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the 2019 East West Rail route consultation.”
Tabled: 17 June 2021Answered: 24 June 2021
Asked by
Richard Fuller
Conservative — North Bedfordshire
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Transport
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.