Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 52473

Coroners: Suicide

Tabled: 14 May 2025
Answered: 21 May 2025

Question

Tom Rutland

LabourEast Worthing and Shoreham

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what legislative plans her Department has for requiring coroners to determine secondary causes of death following suicide.

Answer

Alex Davies-Jones
The Government has no plans to change the information which coroners are required to determine, with regard to cause of death in cases of suicide.The information recorded by the coroner in the Record of Inquest is dependent on the circumstances of the ind...

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